Terms and Conditions

1. Definitions

• “User” means any person who accesses or uses the website of Somerset Timbers.
• “Somerset Timbers” means the website displaying the official content as authorized by Somerset Timbers.
• “Website” and “Website Content” refers to all the text, images, or auditory content that is experienced as part of the User experience on the following domain: somtim.co.za.

 

2. Permitted Use and License

• By accessing Somerset Timbers, the User agrees to the terms and conditions listed herein and all applicable laws governed by the laws of South Africa.
• The website content may not be used for any commercial or non-private use without the prior written consent of Somerset Timbers.
• Users may only access and use the website for lawful purposes.
• Somerset Timbers permits the User to view and print the content of the website, provided that such content is only used for educational, personal, or non-commercial purposes.
• Users are not allowed to reproduce, adapt, post, upload, copy, reuse, publish, retransmit, modify, frame, broadcast, or distribute any of the website content in any way without the prior written consent of Somerset Timbers.

 

3. Intellectual Property, Domain, and Website Content

• All Website content remains the sole property of the relevant content owner and is protected under all relevant copyright, patent, trademark, and other applicable laws.
• All intellectual property on the website, including but not limited to domain names, trademarks, text, patents, software, graphics, design elements, icons, and hyperlinks, are the property of Somerset Timbers and are protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation.
• Nothing on the website should be construed as granting any license or right to distribute content without the express written consent of Somerset Timbers.

 

4. Waiver
   • While Somerset Timbers will make reasonable endeavours to ensure that the content on the website is correct and reliable, inaccuracies might occur. The User should therefore be aware of and acknowledge that:
     • use of the website is at the User’s own risk.
     • the website is provided to the User “voetstoots” or “as is.”
     • The User is also prohibited from accessing any unauthorized pages on the website, modifying or uploading any unauthorized content, creating additional hyperlinks, defacing, deleting, altering, or amending content on Somerset Timbers.

 

5. Severability of Terms and Conditions

• Should a section of these Terms and Conditions be determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful or unenforceable, the other sections of these Terms and Conditions will continue in effect. If any unlawful or unenforceable section would be lawful or enforceable if a part of it was deleted, then that part will be deleted, and the rest of the section will continue in effect, in line with the permissible laws of South Africa.

 

6. Website Hyperlinks

• The Website might provide hyperlinks to other websites from time to time that are not controlled by Somerset Timbers. Any such links do not imply the endorsement, agreement, or support of the content of such other sites by Somerset Timbers.
• Downloading material from these sites might risk infringing intellectual property.
• It is the responsibility of the User to ensure the authenticity of any website which might be hyperlinked to Somerset Timbers prior to making use of such hyperlinks.
• Somerset Timbers is not responsible for ensuring that hyperlinks are in working order.

 

7. Website Security

• Although Somerset Timbers acknowledges that a 100% secure online environment is unattainable, Somerset Timbers is committed to taking reasonable security measures to safeguard the content of its website.
• The User’s privacy is very important to Somerset Timbers. Any information provided to Somerset Timbers is therefore stored in a secure location.
• Somerset Timbers can disclose personal information in response to a specific request by a law enforcement agency, subpoena, court order, or as required by law.
• Somerset Timbers does not sell or rent personal information about individuals such as names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, or fax numbers to any third parties.
• Somerset Timbers will collate the information which Users give to Somerset Timbers to provide the Users with its services.
• Somerset Timbers may also use such information to inform Users about changes in the services that Somerset Timbers offers or about features that may be of interest to Users. By providing Somerset Timbers with this information, Users consent to Somerset Timbers’ use of such information for these purposes and for the purposes outlined in Somerset Timbers’ Privacy Policy, including processing User requests.
• Please refer to the Privacy Policy for any further information regarding Somerset Timbers’ treatment of a User’s personal information.

 

8. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

• The information contained on Somerset Timbers’ Website is for information purposes only and is not intended as professional advice, as circumstances vary from person to person.
• Somerset Timbers is not liable for the actions of Users of Somerset Timbers’ Website.
• Somerset Timbers is not liable to Users for any information posted on Somerset Timbers’ Website.
• By using Somerset Timbers’ Website, a User defends, indemnifies, and holds harmless its lawful employees, agents, and representatives from all damages, losses, and expenses, including legal expenses arising from the following:
  • any claims for the infringement of intellectual property rights, defamation to any material the User may send to Somerset Timbers’ Website.
  • any claims, cost, loss, damage, or expense, whether directly or indirectly, whether monetary or otherwise, which any person might suffer as a result of or in consequence of the use of or reliance on any information or material provided for on Somerset Timbers’ Website.
  • the User’s breach of any provisions of these terms and conditions of Somerset Timbers’ Website.

Somerset Timbers, its agents, employees, and representatives are further indemnified in respect of any costs, losses, damages, or expenses which any person might suffer as a result of entering into any transaction with any third party, including Somerset Timbers, its lawful agents, employees, and representatives, as a result of or in consequence of reliance on any information contained on Somerset Timbers’ Website or any related site.

In no event shall Somerset Timbers and its lawful agents and representatives referred to on this website be liable for any damages of whatsoever nature, whether for bodily, moral, or material injury, including, without limitation, indirect, punitive, incidental, and consequential damages, costs, loss of profits, expenses, or damage resulting from lost data or business interruption resulting from the use or inability to use Somerset Timbers’ Website and the material contained herein, whether based on warranty, contractual or extra-contractual liability, or any other legal matters, and whether or not Somerset Timbers, its lawful agents, employees, and representatives are advised of the possibility of such damages.

 

9. Deletion or Correction of Content

• Website Users should report any inaccurate, illegal, or harmful content appearing on Somerset Timbers’ Website, in which case Somerset Timbers will undertake to correct or remove any such content as soon as Somerset Timbers becomes aware of it.