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PRIVACY POLICY

We ensure adequate protection and management of personally identifiable information.
We do track and analyse data for trends and statistics, but the individual user remains anonymous.
We store information you supply in our free e-mail services in fully secured databases with restricted access. This information may be updated through our subscriber functions within the e-mail or on the website.
We will only ever disclose aggregate information about our user base. Aggregate information will never disclose who you are, but rather identifies the user population in general terms (e.g. 61% female etc.).
So that we can better serve you with more tailored information, we utilise "cookies". You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. "Cookies" are completely harmless, so we'd recommend you accept them.
The privacy practices of those sites linking out of us, is not our responsibility. We'd recommend you check their policy on privacy before disclosing personal information.

TERMS OF USE

1. Definitions.

"WINEmag.co.za" is the interactive on-line service operated by Ramsay. Son & Parker (Pty) Ltd on the World Wide Web of the Internet, consisting of information services and content provided by WINEmag.co.za, affiliates of WINEmag.co.za and other third parties. "Visitor" means each person who establishes a connection for access to and use of WINEmag.co.za.

2. General.

2.1 By using WINEmag.co.za Visitor agrees to comply with all of the terms and conditions hereof. The right to use WINEmag.co.za is personal to the Visitor and is not transferable to any other person or entity. The Visitor is responsible for all use of the Visitor's Account and for ensuring that all use of Visitor's Account complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement. Visitor shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of Visitor's password(s), if any.

2.2 WINEmag.co.za shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of WINEmag.co.za, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use.

3. Equipment.

Visitor shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware and other equipment needed for access to and use of WINEmag.co.za and all charges related thereto.

4. Visitor Conduct.

4.1 Visitor shall use WINEmag.co.za for lawful purposes only. Visitor shall not post or transmit through WINEmag.co.za any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy, vulgar, obscene or profane, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without WINEmag.co.za's express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Any conduct by a Visitor that in WINEmag.co.za's discretion restricts or inhibits any other Visitor from using or enjoying WINEmag.co.za will not be permitted. Visitor shall not use WINEmag.co.za to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation.

4.2 WINEmag.co.za contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics and the entire contents of WINEmag.co.za are copyrighted as a collective work under the South African copyright laws. WINEmag.co.za owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to it. Visitor may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. Visitor may download copyrighted material for Visitor's personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of WINEmag.co.za (email request to webmaster@WINEmag.co.za) and the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution or copyright notice shall be made. Visitor acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.

4.3 Visitor shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on WINEmag.co.za any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with Visitor. Visitor shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to any public area of WINEmag.co.za, Visitor automatically grants, or warrants that the owner of such material has expressly granted WINEmag.co.za the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. Visitor also permits any other Visitor to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that Visitor's personal use. Visitor hereby grants WINEmag.co.za the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available on WINEmag.co.za by Visitor.

4.4 The foregoing provisions of Section 5 are for the benefit of WINEmag.co.za, its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.

5. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability.

5.1 Visitor expressly agrees that use of WINEmag.co.za is at visitor's sole risk. Neither WINEmag.co.za, its affiliates nor any of their respective employees, agents, third party content providers or licensors warrant that WINEmag.co.za will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of WINEmag.co.za, or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information, service, or merchandise provided through WINEmag.co.za.

5.2 This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, negligence, or under any other cause of action. Visitor specifically acknowledges that WINEmag.co.za is not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other visitors or third-parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with the visitor.

5.3 In addition to the terms set forth above neither, WINEmag.co.za, nor its affiliates, information providers or content partners shall be liable regardless of the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or other defects in the information contained within WINEmag.co.za, or for any delay or interruption in the transmission thereof to the user, or for any claims or losses arising there from or occasioned thereby. None of the foregoing parties shall be liable for any third-party claims or losses of any nature, including, but not limited to, lost profits, punitive or consequential damages

6. Monitoring.

WINEmag.co.za shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of WINEmag.co.za, including chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with this Agreement and any operating rules established by WINEmag.co.za. WINEmag.co.za shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on WINEmag.co.za.

7. Indemnification.

Visitor agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless WINEmag.co.za, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of the use of WINEmag.co.za by the Visitor.

COPYRIGHT

All contents Copyright © 2003, Ramsay, Son & Parker (Pty) Ltd.
The entire contents and presentation of WINEmag.co.za are the intellectual property of Ramsay, Son & Parker (Pty) Ltd and must not be reproduced in whole or part. We readily give permission for 3rd parties to reproduce our content provided a formal request for permission has been received and approved by the publishers. You can do this by sending an email to webmaster@WINEmag.co.za.

CONTACT US

Ramsay, Son & Parker (Pty) Ltd, Digital Publishing
3 Howard Drive, Pinelands, South Africa
Tel: +27 21 530 3100
Fax: +27 21 531 3333

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