MultiCad Design Solutions CC - Terms & Conditions

WEBSITE AND FORUM TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

 

IN TERMS OF SECTION 11 OF THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONS (ECT) ACT 25 OF 2002 AND THE COMMON LAW OF CONTRACT, THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE VALID, BINDING AND ENFORCEABLE AGAINST ALL PERSONS THAT ACCESS THE MultiCad Design Solutions CC WEBSITE ("THE WEBSITE"), WEB PAGES OR ANY PART THEREOF.

 

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU MUST LEAVE THE WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY AS FURTHER USE WILL AUTOMATICALLY BIND YOU TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

 a) "the Website" means the MultiCad Design Solutions CC website, including any part or element thereof;

 b) "MultiCad Design Solutions CC" means MultiCad Design Solutions CC, an independent business unit, registration number _ _ _, of 35 Lourensrivier Road, Strand, 7140, South Africa;

 c) "User" means any person who enters or uses the Website, notwithstanding the fact that such a person only visits the home page of the Website;

 d) References herein to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

 e) Hyperlinks herein to legal documents should be deemed part of these terms and conditions in terms of section 11(3) of the ECT Act. The fact that some or all of the hyperlinks may, from time to time, be non-operational, shall not affect the validity and interpretation of these terms and conditions.

 

1. GENERAL

 MultiCad Design Solutions CC is a career portal which offers services to recruiters, publications, and career seekers. Recruiters and publications enter their jobs on the site while career seekers enter their CVs.

 Career Seekers are responsible for granting Recruiters Access to their CVs. Should a Career Seeker not respond to the request for permission (which is sent via sms (if cell number is supplied) and e-mail within 48 hours MultiCad Design Solutions CC will then assume the Career Seeker is consenting to the release of their CV to the Recruiter and will grant the Recruiter Access to their CV.

 It is the Career Seeker's responsibility to inactivate their Profile through the Career Manager should they not be contactable for a period of time.

 

 2. ALLOWED USE AND LICENSE

 2.1 MultiCad Design Solutions CC licenses the User to view, download, and print the content of the Website, provided that such content is used for private, personal, educational, and/or non-commercial purposes only.

 2.2 Content from the Website may not be used or exploited by Users for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of MultiCad Design Solutions CC.

 2.3 Users may only access, browse and use the Website for legitimate personal or commercial purposes and may not use the Website or any MultiCad Design Solutions CC services and/or products for:

 2.3.1 Harmful purposes;

 2.3.2 Illegal purposes;

 2.3.3 Disclosing, sharing or publishing material that may be offensive, defamatory, regulated, copyrighted, incorrect, untrue, prohibited, infringing or damaging to any person; and/or

 2.3.4 The creation, storage and sending of unsolicited commercial communications.

  

2.4 The caching of the Website shall only be allowed if:

 2.4.1 The purpose of the caching is to make the onward transmission of the content from the Website more efficient;

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

 2.4.3 The cached content is updated at least every 12 (twelve) hours; and

 2.4.4 The cached content is removed or updated when so required by MultiCad Design Solutions CC.

 

 2.5 If any User uses content from the Website in breach of the provisions detailed herein:

 2.5.1 MultiCad Design Solutions CC reserves the right to claim damages from the User;

 2.5.2 MultiCad Design Solutions CC reserves the right to institute criminal proceedings against the User; and

 2.5.3 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall not be liable, in any manner whatsoever, for any damage, loss or liability that resulted from the use of such content by the User or any third party who obtained any content from the User.

 2.6 Hyperlinks to the Website from any other source shall be directed at the home page of the Website. Links beyond the MultiCad Design Solutions CC home page may only be used with MultiCad Design Solutions CC's prior written consent.

 2.7 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall not be liable, in any manner whatsoever, for any damage, loss or liability that resulted from the use of content, products or services available from the Website, if such content, products or services was accessed through a hyperlink not directed at the home page of the Website. Persons that wish to link to pages beyond the home page of the Website without MultiCad Design Solutions CC's prior written consent shall do so at their own risk and indemnify Careers24 against any loss, liability, or damage that may result from the use of such hyperlinks. MultiCad Design Solutions CC's non-liability for deep linking is because deep links bypass these terms and conditions.

 2.8 Users may quote small and reasonable amounts of content available from the Website and only if such a quote is placed in inverted commas and acknowledged.

 2.9 No person may, without the prior written consent of the MultiCad Design Solutions CC, frame the Website in any manner whatsoever.

 2.10 Apart from bona-fide search engine operators and use of the search facility provided on the Website by Users, no person may use or attempt to use any technology or applications (including web crawlers, robots or web spiders) to search, collect or copy content from the Website for any purpose whatsoever, without the prior written consent of MultiCad Design Solutions CC.

 2.11 E-mail addresses, names, telephone numbers, and fax numbers published on the Website may not be incorporated into any database used for electronic marketing or similar purposes. No permission is given or should be implied that information on the Website may be used to communicate unsolicited communications to MultiCad Design Solutions CC and all rights detailed in section 45 of the ECT Act are reserved.

 2.12 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 MultiCad Design Solutions CC at any time without prior notice or reasons.

 

 3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

 3.1 All intellectual property on the Website, including but not limited to content, trademarks (or any confusingly similar trademarks), logos, pictures, video, downloads, domain names, patents, design elements, software, source code, meta tags, databases, text, graphics, icons and hyperlinks are the property of or licensed to MultiCad Design Solutions CC and as such, are protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation and treaties. Subject to the rights licensed to the User in clause 2, all other rights to intellectual property on the Website are expressly reserved.

 3.2 No person may use logos, icons, or trade marks from the Website as hyperlinks or other purposes without MultiCad Design Solutions CC's prior written consent.

 

 4. SOFTWARE AND EQUIPMENT

 It is the responsibility of the User to acquire and maintain, at his/her own expense, the necessary computer hardware, software, communication lines and Internet access accounts required to access the Internet and the Website and/or download content from the Website.

 

 5. DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY SECTION 43 OF THE ECT Act

 Thes3 terms and conditions as well as product and / or service specific terms and conditions govern the sale of goods and / or the provision of services from or through the Website.

 Access to the services, content, software and downloads available from the Website may be classified as "electronic transactions" as defined in terms of the ECT Act and therefore Users have the rights detailed in Chapter 7 of the ECT Act and MultiCad Design Solutions CC has, amongst others, the duty to disclose the following information:

 5.1 The full name and legal status of the website owner: MultiCad Design Solutions CC;

 5.2 Office bearers: http://multicadsolutions.weebly.com/home.html;

 5.3 Street address: 35 Lourensrivier Road, Strand, 7140, South Africa;

 5.4 Postal address: PO Box 481, Somerset Mall, Somerset West, 7137, South Africa;

 5.5 Physical address for receipt of legal service: 35 Lourensrivier Road, Strand, 7140, South Africa;

 5.6 Telephone number: +27 74 319 1609;

 5.7 Code of Conduct: None;

 5.8 Main business: MultiCad Design Solutions CC is a Registered Graphisoft SA Solution Centre, Western Cape Regional Office . Recruiters and publications enter their jobs on the site while career seekers enter their CVs;

 5.9 Services: The website sells advertising space to recruiters, employment agencies and employers who wish advertise employment positions online;

 5.10 Payment: Credit card, direct deposit and debit card payments;

 5.11 Costs: As published on the website from time to time;

 5.12 Full record of transactions: available to members through username and password login;

 5.13 The website address of the Website is: www.multicad.co.za

 5.14 Termination of agreement: For recruiters, employment agencies and employers who subscribed for advertising space - through 1 (one) month's prior written notice and subject to the credit terms of MultiCad Design Solutions CC;

 5.15 Security features: secure communications via SSL, authentication via digital certificates and username and password login;

 5.16 The official e-mail address of the Website is: [email protected];

 

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

 5.17.1 access to the Website;

 5.17.2 the inability to access the Website;

 5.17.3 the services and content available from the Website; or

 5.17.4 these terms and conditions,

 shall 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 Cape Town 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 website: http://www.arbitration.co.za; and

 5.18 Users may lodge complaints concerning the Website with MultiCad Design Solutions CC at [email protected];

 

 6. CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS

 MultiCad Design Solutions CC reserve the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to do any of the following, at any time without prior notice or justification:

 6.1 change these terms and conditions;

 6.2 change the content and/or services available from the Website;

 6.3 discontinue any aspect of the Website or service(s) available from the Website; and/or

 6.4 change the software and hardware required to access and use the Website.

 

 7. PRIVACY

 7.1 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of Users and 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).

  

7.2 MultiCad Design Solutions CC may electronically collect, store and use the following personal information of Users:

 7.2.1 name and surname;

 7.2.2 area code;

 7.2.3 street address;

 7.2.4 postal address;

 7.2.5 title;

 7.2.6 contact numbers;

 7.2.7 non-personal browsing habits and click patterns;

 7.2.8 e-mail address; and / or

 7.2.9 IP address.

  

7.3 MultiCad Design Solutions CC collects, stores and uses the abovementioned information for the following purposes:

 7.3.1 Communicate requested information to the User;

 7.3.2 Provide services to the User as requested by the User;

 7.3.3 Authenticate the User;

 7.3.4 Provide the User with access to restricted pages on this website; and

 7.3.5 Compile non-personal statistical information about browsing habits, click-patterns, and access to the Website.

  

7.4 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.

 

 7.5 MultiCad Design Solutions CC may collect, maintain, save, compile, share, disclose and sell any information collected from users, subject to the following provisions:

 7.5.1 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall not disclose personal information from Users unless the User consents thereto;

 7.5.2 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall disclose personal information without the User?s consent only through due legal process; and

 7.5.3 MultiCad Design Solutions CC may compile, use and share any information that does not relate to any specific individual.

 

 7.6 MultiCad Design Solutions CC own and retain all rights to non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by the Careers24.

  

8. HYPERLINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

 8.1 MultiCad Design Solutions CC may provide hyperlinks to websites not controlled by MultiCad Design Solutions CC ("target sites") and such hyperlinks do not imply any endorsement, agreement on or support of the content, products, and/or services of such target sites.

 8.2 MultiCad Design Solutions CC does not editorially control the content, products and/or services on target sites and shall not be liable, in any manner whatsoever, for the access to, inability to access, use, inability to use or content available on or through target sites.

  

9. SECURITY

 9.1 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall take all reasonable steps to secure the content of the Website and the information provided by and collected from Users from unauthorised access and/or disclosure. However, MultiCad Design Solutions CC do not make any warranties or representations that content shall be 100% safe or secure.

 9.2 Subject to the provisions of sections 43(5) and 43(6) of the ECT Act, if applicable, MultiCad Design Solutions CC is under no legal duty to encrypt any content or communications from and to Users and is also under no legal duty to provide digital authentication of any pages on the Website.

 9.3 Users may not deliver or attempt to deliver, whether on purpose or negligently, any damaging code, such as computer viruses, robots or spy ware, to the Website or the server and computer network that support the Website.

 9.4 Notwithstanding criminal prosecution, any person who delivers or attempts to deliver any damaging code to the Website, whether on purpose or negligently, shall, without any limitation, indemnify and hold MultiCad Design Solutions CC harmless against any and all liabilities, damages, risks and losses that MultiCad Design Solutions CC and its partners / affiliates may suffer as a result of such delivery, attempt or damaging code.

 9.5 Users may not develop, distribute, or use any device or programme designed to breach or overcome the security measures of the restricted pages, products and services on the Website and MultiCad Design Solutions CC reserves the right to claim damages from any and all persons involved, directly and indirectly, in the development, use and distribution of such devices or programmes.

 9.6 Users who commit any of the offences detailed in sections 85 to 88 of the ECT Act shall, notwithstanding criminal prosecution, be liable for all resulting liabilities, losses, destruction or damages suffered and/or incurred by Careers24 and its partners / affiliates due to or related to these illegal actions.

 

 10. DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

 10.1 Subject to the provisions of sections 43(5) and 43(6) of the ECT Act, if applicable, and as far as allowed by law, MultiCad Design Solutions CC (including its owners, employees, suppliers, Internet service providers, partners, affiliates and agents) shall not be liable for any damage, loss or liability of any nature incurred by whomever and resulting from:

 10.1.1 access to the Website;

 10.1.2 access to websites linked to the Website;

 10.1.3 inability to access the Website;

 10.1.4 inability to access websites linked to the Website;

 10.1.5 content available on the Website;

 10.1.6 content posted to the Website by Users;

 10.1.7 services available from the Website;

 10.1.8 products available from the Website;

 10.1.9 downloads and use of content from the Website; and/or

 10.1.10 any other reason not directly related to MultiCad Design Solutions CC's gross negligence.

  

10.2 The MultiCad Design Solutions CC website is supplied on an "as is" basis and has not been compiled to meet the User's individual requirements. It is the responsibility of the User to satisfy himself or herself, prior to entering into this agreement with the MultiCad Design Solutions CC, that the content available from and through the Website meet the User's individual requirements and is compatible with the User's computer hardware and/or software.

 10.3 Information, ideas and opinions expressed on the Website should not be regarded as professional advice or the official opinion of Careers24 and Users are encouraged to consult professional advice before taking any course of action related to the information, ideas or opinions expressed on the Website.

 10.4 MultiCad Design Solutions CC does not make any warranties or representation that content and services available from the Website shall in all cases be true, correct or free from any errors. MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall take all reasonable steps to ensure the quality and accuracy of content available from the Website.

 10.5 MultiCad Design Solutions CC do not make any warranties or representations that the Website shall be available at all times. Users acknowledge that the Website may be unavailable due to updates or other causes beyond the reasonable control of the MultiCad Design Solutions CC, including, but not limited to virus infection, unauthorised access (hacking), power failure or other "acts of God."

  

11. REMOVAL AND CORRECTION OF CONTENT

 Users are encouraged to report untrue, inaccurate, defamatory, illegal, infringing, and/or harmful content available from the Website to MultiCad Design Solutions CC and MultiCad Design Solutions CC undertakes to correct and/or remove such content or any part thereof if the person reporting such content provided reasonable grounds to prove the alleged nature of the content.

 

 12. INTERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS

 12.1 Subject to the provisions of the Regulation of Interception of Communications (RIC) Act 70 of 2002, the User agrees to the MultiCad Design Solutions CC's right to intercept, block, filter, read, delete, disclose and use all communications (including all "data messages" as defined in the ECT Act) send or posted by the User to the Website, its staff and employees. The RIC Act may be downloaded from: http://www.info.gov.za/acts/2002/a70-02/.

 12.2 The User agrees and acknowledges that the consent provided by the User in clause 13.1 satisfies the "writing" requirement as detailed in the ECT Act and the RIC Act.

  

13. ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND SEVERABILITY

 13.1 These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between MultiCad Design Solutions CC and the User and shall take precedent over any disclaimers and/or legal notices attached to any communications and/or postings received by MultiCad Design Solutions CC from the User.

 13.2 Any failure by MultiCad Design Solutions CC to exercise or enforce any right or provision shall in no way constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

 13.3 In the event that any term or condition detailed herein is found unenforceable or invalid for any reason, such term(s) or condition(s) shall be severable from the remaining terms and conditions. The remaining terms and conditions shall remain enforceable and applicable.

  

14. AGREEMENT IN TERMS OF SECTION 21 OF THE ECT Act

 The User and MultiCad Design Solutions CC agree that:

 14.1 the User shall be bound to these term and conditions and such agreement is concluded in Cape Town (South Africa) at the time the User enters the Website for the first time;

 14.2 data messages (as defined in the ECT Act) addressed by the User to MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall only be deemed to have been received if and when responded to;

 14.3 data messages (as defined in the ECT Act) addressed to the User by MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall be deemed to be received by the User as detailed in section 23(b) of the ECT Act;

 14.4 data messages (as defined in the ECT Act) addressed by the User to MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall be deemed to have been created and sent by the User from within the geographical boundaries of South Africa;

 14.5 electronic signatures, encryption and/or authentication is not required for valid electronic communications between the User and the MultiCad Design Solutions CC; and

 14.6 the User agrees and warrants that data messages that are sent to MultiCad Design Solutions CC from a computer, IP address or mobile device normally used by or owned by the User, was sent and/or authorised by the User personally.

  

15. APPLICABLE AND GOVERNING LAW

 The MultiCad Design Solutions CC website is hosted, controlled and operated from the Republic of South Africa and therefore, subject to clause 5.10, the South African law enforced by the South African courts governs the use or inability to use the Website, its content, services, products and these terms and conditions.

  

16. LEGAL COSTS

 MultiCad Design Solutions CC shall not be liable for costs incurred by Users to obtain professional advice relating to these terms and conditions.