Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using the Site. By using this Site you signify your consent to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the Terms, please do not use this site. By continuing to use this site you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions.
We may alter this agreement at our discretion and your continued use after any change indicates your acceptance of that change. If you don't want to be bound by a change, discontinue use of the Service. It is your responsibility to periodically review these terms and conditions and to ensure that you are fully versed with the contents thereof at all times. We will in so far as is reasonably possible keep you informed of any changes, but we assume no legal obligations to do so.
Limitations on Liability:
The information, products, and services included on this Web Service may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. SAReunited.com and its third party suppliers provide all Content in this Service "AS IS", and without any warranty of any kind. SAReunited.com, make no representations concerning the suitability, reliability or accuracy of the Content provided on the Service for any purpose. We disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, in connection with the Content and the services provided on the Service, including conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. In no case will we or our third party providers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, special or other damages including, without limitation, loss or delay of use, loss of profits, loss of data or any other damage in contract, tort, equity or any other legal theory, even if advised of the possibility thereof.
Sites of those third parties may be subject to terms and conditions different from those found here. SAReunited.com makes no warranty concerning third party provided goods or services and you agree that any recourse for dissatisfaction or problems with those goods or services will be sought from the third party provider and not from SAReunited.com. Because some countries do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, this limitation may not apply in part to you. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THIS WEB SERVICE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THIS WEB SERVICE.
The Site and the Service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. SAReunited.com assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, User communications. SAReunited.com is not responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of any telephone network or service, computer systems, servers or providers, computer or mobile phone equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to User's or to any other person's computer, mobile phone, or other hardware or software, related to or resulting from using or downloading materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service, including any Mobile Client software. Under no circumstances will SAReunited.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including any loss or damage to any User Content or personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Site or the Service, any User Content or Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on or through the Site or the Service or transmitted to Users, or any interactions between users of the Site, whether online or offline.
SAReunited.com reserves the right to change any and all content, software and other items used or contained in the Site and any Services and Platform Applications offered through the Site at any time without notice. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by SAReunited.com.
Registration:
You can now begin using our site by filling out our online registration form. By registering with us, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself as well as family members/friends registered on your account including correct names, addresses, email address and any other requested details and to update that information if it changes. You are also responsible for the correct use of data or information supplied by another family member or friend that registers using your email address. Each member also undertakes only to add themselves to a school (or other institution) on the SAReunited.com Service that he/she attended at the relevant time. If you are asked for, and provide details of a credit, debit or charge card in that event you must ensure that (a) you are fully entitled to use that card, and (b) it has available funds sufficient to cover the charges which are deducted from it. After registration you will be send an email to verify that the email address you use for registration is controlled by you.
This Site is intended solely for users who are sixteen (16) years of age or older. Any registration by, use of or access to the Site by anyone under 16, is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms of Use. By using the Service or the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 16 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
In countries with an age of majority older than 16, all users who register may only do so with their guardians consent. By registering you are representing that you have attained majority, or that you have your guardians consent.
SAReunited.com is not and cannot be responsible for any member's (non-paying or paid behaviour) whether members are on site and off the site - we provide an access service only. We are not an Internet service provider, however In order to avail of the SAReunited.com Service, you must have Internet access and all the software and appropriate skills required for email and web usage.
Types of Membership: (see membership explained in FAQ)
SAReunited.com users are divided into 3 types of "Members". In addition members can have an "Upgrade" membership option. SAReunited.com reserves the right to change the types of membership and conditions of membership from time to time. The Membership divides between those who decide to pay our fee for a full annual membership ("Standard" and "Premier " Members" collectively referred to as "Paid " Members), and those who do not ("Free Members").
the upgrade becomes effective when payment is processed and new Premier Membership will expire on the same day as original Standard Membership expiry date.
PAYMENT INFORMATION FOR STANDARD OR PREMIER MEMBERS (PAID MEMBERS)
By becoming a full member (standard or premier) and paying the appropriate membership fee, you are agreeing to accept that membership without refund unless the SAReunited.com Service for which the Member has subscribed is completely withdrawn from that Full Member by us other than in circumstances permitted under these Terms and Conditions. Refunds will be given at the discretion of SAReunited.com Management. A full membership (standard and premier) with SAReunited.com entitles the user to all of the services applicable to the membership type as set out in paragrah 2 for a period of twelve months. Upon expiry of the membership, you will be notified by SAReunited.com and given the option to renew your membership, agreeing to our then current terms and prices. SAReunited.com reserve the right to alter fees, services or the period they cover, but this would not affect your current membership. SAReunited.com may add new or ancillary services from time to time which may require the payment of fees, either to us or a nominated third party. The terms will be provided to you at the time.
Privacy Policy:
Please see our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions. By registering with the SAReunited.com Service, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions and you also give your consent to the way we may handle your personal data in that policy. Please note that due to the global nature of the World Wide Web, any posting on the SAReunited.com Service (including any which contain personal information) is accessible to internet users around the world. Any such personal and contact information you enter anywhere on the site, you do at your own risk. Be aware that once you give other persons your contact details they are able to contact you directly.
Please note that we at all times reserve the right to access your profile and posted details with a our Master Log In, and reserve the right to delete any details or any part of your profile whatsoever, and to conduct any investigations into your profile that we deem necessary to maintain our User Conduct Policy.
User Conduct:
We do not control the information provided by others which is made available through our system. You may find other user's information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution, common sense and practise responsible behaviour when using our site as we cannot be responsible for the behaviour of Members - whether on the SAReunited.com Service or outside of it. We only provide a venue where the SAReunited.com Service may be accessed. SAReunited.com has no obligation to screen information that is posted or shared by members and we reserve the right to remove any objectionable information, at our discretion, without notice.
Members agree to:
- Take responsibility for all acts that occur under your account or password, including any content transmitted from your account.
- Maintain the confidentiality of your password and login identity.
Provide only accurate and appropriate personal information about yourself and refrain from posting sexually explicit and foul language. You agree to keep your personal information posted on the site within the convention of good taste. Although we endeavour to do so, we are not obliged to review individuals' profiles looking for inappropriate material, but if it is brought to our attention, we will require that you revise or delete the inappropriate information, or reserve the right to delete the material ourselves.
Members agree not to
- harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Service or the Site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications;
- use the Service or the Site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site;
- use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site;
- upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
- upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any videos other than those of a personal nature that: (i) are of you or your friends, (ii) are taken by you or your friends;
- register for more than one User account, register for a User account on behalf of an individual other than yourself, or register for a User account on behalf of any group or entity;
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity;
- upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
- upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make publicly available on the Site any private information of any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;
- solicit personal information from anyone under 16 or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes;
- upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- intimidate or harass another;
- upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law;
- use or attempt to use another's account, service or system without authorization from SAReunited.com, or create a false identity on the Service or the Site.
- upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that, in the sole judgment of Company, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Site, or which may expose Company or its users to any harm or liability of any type.
- Use your access to SAReunited.com for commercial purposes.
- Send junk mail or spam to our members or solicit our members to promote other social network sites, or for commercial purposes.
- Post your email address, phone number or physical, postal or web addresses anywhere on the site except for on noticeboards where contact information is relevant, required and in the convention of good taste.
- Republish information found in the site without first obtaining written permission from us.
- Post any false, misleading, slanderous, libellous, or inaccurate information about others on our site.
Abuse of Conduct Policy:
In the event you violate these Terms and Conditions, SAReunited.com has the right to suspend or terminate any Member's access to the SAReunited.com Service or parts of it. In this event SAReunited.com will not be obliged to refund any amount or provide any service to such a member or former member. Member will be required to edit or remove inappropriate material posted on the SAReunited.com Service, if the relevant Member or material appears to us to be in breach of any provision of this Agreement. Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register or re-access SAReunited.com Service without our prior consent. Further you are responsible for everything which is done on or through the SAReunited.com Service while your Membership account is logged on to Service or through your email address(es). In the event you need to report abusive conduct please contact by emailing us at abuse@SAReunited.com. SAReunied reserves the right to remove any offensive material and terminate the membership of any member who behaves in an unacceptable way, but it is not obliged to do so. You agree that SAReunited.com cannot be held responsible for any offensive behaviour of other persons including members.
User Content on Site:
You are solely responsible for the photos, profiles (including your name, image, and likeness), messages, notes, text, information, music, video, advertisements, listings, and other content that you post on or through or the Site, or transmit to or share with other users (collectively the "User Content"). You may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Site that you did not create or that you do not have permission to post. You understand and agree that SAReunited.com may, but is not obligated to, review the Site and may delete or remove (without notice) any Site Content or User Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including User Content that in the sole judgment of SAReunited.com violates this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any User Content you post or store on the Site or provide to SAReunited.com.
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to SAReunited.com an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that SAReunited.com may retain archived copies of your User Content. SAReunited does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.
Disputes Between Users:
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor or to resolve disputes between you and other users.
Third Party Content:
This site may contain links to together Web sites operated by third parties other than SAReunited.com. Such links are provided for your convenience only. SAReunited.com does not control such Web sites and is not responsible for their content. The fact that this Site contains links to other sites does not mean that SAReunited.com approves of, endorses or recommends those sites, nor does it imply any association with their operators. SAReunited.com disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy, legality, reliability or validity of any content of any other site and disclaims all responsibility for any loss, injury, claim, liability or damage of any kind resulting from any third party Web sites or content therein directly or indirectly accessed through links in this Site.
Such Third Party Sites and Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use or installation of any Third Party Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any site to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the site.
Intellectual Property:
All content on the Site and available through the Service, including designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the "Site Content"), are the proprietary property of SAReunited.com, its users or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without SAReunited.com's prior written permission, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally post on the Site. Provided that you are eligible for use of the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and the Site Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact. Except for your own User Content, you may not upload or republish Site Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any other database or compilation, and any other use of the Site Content is strictly prohibited. Such license is subject to these Terms of Use and does not include use of any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods.
Whether in the free section or in the subscription section of the Service, all Content is owned and/or copyrighted by The Dynamic Mink Limited and The Dynamic Mink Enterprises, trading as SAReunited.com third party providers and may be used only in accordance with this limited use license. SAReunited.com is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to UK copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws.
Any use of the Site or the Site Content other than as specifically authorized herein, without the prior written permission of SAReunited.com, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws including copyright and trademark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is revocable at any time without notice and with or without cause.
Operation of SAReunited Services:
We shall take reasonable measures to endeavour to maintain our services, but you will not be eligible for any compensation because of loss or unavailability of any service we provide. Further SAReunited will at times update or offer new services to our members from time to time and therefore has the right to do so without advance notice to our members. SAReunited reserves the right to change any service at any time to withdraw or modify one or more aspects of the SAReunited Service where legal or technical reasons require, which includes technical difficulties experienced by SAReunited or on the Internet). There may also be times when the SAReunited Service becomes unavailable, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. For security or other reasons, we may require you to change password or other information which facilitates access to the SAReunited Service.
Communications Between SAReunited and You:
SAReunited will send electronic mail to you, for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to SAReunited, or of any SAReunited related products and services. You may opt out of this notification service by replying to the electronic mail that was sent with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line.
Termination:
SAReunited.com may terminate your membership, delete your profile and any content or information that you have posted on the Site and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or the Site (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Service or the Site or any Platform Application) for any reason, or no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including if it believes that you are under 16.
Should you breach this Agreement, SAReunited.com will revoke your license to use the Service and suspend your right of access. In such a case, no portion of your subscription payment will be refunded. Should SAReunited.com decide to suspend the subscription service for any reason other than breach, it will refund to you the unused portion of your subscription payment, which will be your sole and exclusive remedy upon such a suspension of service.
Modifications
SAReunited has the right, at its sole discretion, to modify this Agreement or the Service at any time. SAReunited reserves the right to sell the business or terminate the services of SAReunited.com if necessary. Changes in service will be posted on at SAReunited, or sent via e-mail to your registered email address or postal mail to you. If any portion of this Agreement or any change of this Agreement of the Service is unacceptable to you or will cause you to no longer be in compliance with the Agreement. Continued use of the service now or following posted notices of changes in this Agreement means that you have accepted and are bound by the changes.
Notices:
If you wish to contact us by post, our South African contact address is: P.O. Box 466, Bergvliet, 7864, South Africa and our International Address is: P.O Box 317, Twickenham, TW1 9BJ, United Kingdom. If you wish to pay by cheque please make payable to SAReunited.com (writing full e-mail and Name on the back of the cheque).
Disputes and Governing Law:
By visiting or using the Site, you agree that this agreement has been concluded in London, that the laws of England, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms and conditions, and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and SAReunited. With respect to any disputes or claims, you agree not to commence or prosecute any action in connection therewith other than in the Courts of London, and you hereby consent to, and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction in London.