Terms and Conditions
Magazine Publishers Association of South Africa (MPASA)

Introduction

This site ("the Site") is owned and operated by MPASA
Many areas of this Site are accessible to all visitors but certain areas have restricted access for members of MPASA only.
MPASA reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access and use of this Site, with or without notice.

All intellectual property rights in the Site and its content, including but not limited to trademarks, data software, source code, databases, text, graphics, icons, hyperlinks, private information, and designs are the property of or licensed to MPASA, and are protected from unauthorised use and/or infringement.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

The intellectual property rights in all content, information, services and/or software vesting in MPASA shall continue to vest in MPASA or such other third party as the case may be and no right, title or interest in any proprietary material or information contained in this Site is granted to you.

Use of Site content:

MPASA hereby grants permission to any person to view the Site, and copy, print and use any document and images presented on the Site, subject to the following conditions:

• The documents and images may be used solely for information and noncommercial purposes only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or broadcast in any media,
• Copying for sale or public distribution of any material on this Site is strictly prohibited,
• No modifications of documents as contained on this Site are permitted.
• The documents and images may be used solely for individual purposes and may not be used to commercialise any products or services other than MPASA's products and services;

Apart from the manner set out above, you do not have permission to reproduce, modify or commercially exploit IN ANY WAY any of the content obtained from the Site. If you wish to republish or redistribute any of the content contained in the Site, MPASA will discuss the terms of a commercial licence with you.
Please email the webeditor at mpasa@printmedia.org.za.

Links

Any reference obtained via this Site to a specific commercial or non-commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply an endorsement by MPASA of the product, process, service, or its producer or provider.

The views and opinions expressed in any referenced document or any site linked to this Site do not necessarily state or reflect those of MPASA.

There may be links to other sites from this Site; however, these other sites are not controlled by MPASA and MPASA is not responsible for any content contained on any such site or any loss suffered by the user in relation to his/her use of any linked site. MPASA is hereby indemnified against any claims whatsoever regarding the inclusion of links to outside sites or the user's use of those sites.

Liability

Any content provided on this Site by outside parties is provided on the basis that MPASA disclaims all warranties regarding all such content, whether expressed or implied.

MPASA makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the Site, the information, content, materials or products included on the Site.

MPASA's directors or employees accept no liability whatsoever and take no responsibility for any loss or damage which a user of the Site or any other third party may suffer or incur as a result of the use of or reliance on material found on the Site, and, without limiting the generality of the aforesaid, in particular for:

• Any errors, omissions, or inaccuracy of information or data on the Site,
• Any incompleteness in the information or data on the Site,
• Any interpretations or opinions stated in, or which may be inferred from information on the Site.

The user agrees that the use of this Site will be at his or her own risk. Neither MPASA, nor any of its employees, agents and content providers, warrant that there will be uninterrupted or error free use of this Site; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of this Site, or as to the accuracy or reliability of any information, service or merchandise provided through the Site.

Under no circumstances shall MPASA be liable for any damages of whatsoever nature, including injury caused by any failure of performance or error, omission or inaccuracy, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of or use of this Site, breach of contract, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

The user specifically acknowledges that MPASA is not liable for defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other users or third parties and that the risk of injury or any losses from the foregoing rests entirely with the user.

MPASA shall not be liable for special, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or damages for loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of data or loss of use arising out of or related to the Site or the information contained in it, whether such damages arise in contract, delict, statutory provision, law or otherwise.

Technical disruptions

Disruptions caused by technical errors, viruses or other disabling phenomena are aimed to be kept to a minimum. "Technical disruption" means distribution of unsolicited advertising or chain letters, propagation of computer worms, viruses or other harmful code, and/or use of the Site to gain unauthorised entry to any hardware item accessible via the Site. The possibility does exist, however, that some data or information on this Site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error free and we cannot guarantee that this will not impact on the Site. MPASA does not accept any responsibility for any problems you may encounter as a result of using this Site or any linked external sites.

Choice of Law and Jurisdiction

These terms are to be governed by and construed according to South African law and the parties agree to submit any disputes to the jurisdiction of the South African courts.