TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
1. TERM
1.1. This document sets out the terms and conditions (“Terms”) pertaining to the access of and use of the services and functions
provided on this website: https://pdvault.co/terms (“Site”).
1.2. Should User (which means any person that accesses the Site) disagree with any of the Terms, User must refrain from accessing
the Site and from using any of the services and products offered through or arising from this Site in their entirety. By accessing the Site,
User warrants and represents that User agrees to these Terms, is legally entitled to use the services. Any person below the age of 18
(eighteen) years may not use the services and must be assisted by their legal guardian when reading and agreeing to these Terms.
1.3. The owner of the Site (“Site Owner”) reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend and/or replace any of, or the whole of,
the Terms. Such amendments shall supersede and replace any previous Terms and shall be made available on the Site. Each time User accesses
the Site, User shall be deemed to have consented, by such access and/or use, to the Terms, as amended and/or replaced from time to time.
1.4. In the event of a dispute as to the content of the Terms at any time, a certificate signed by the administrator responsible for
maintaining the Site shall be prima facie proof of the date of publication and content of the current version and all previous versions of
the Terms.
2. CONTENT OF THE SITE
2.1. The Site Owner reserves the right to make improvements, to change or to discontinue, without notice, any aspect or feature of the
Site and any information or content on the Site.
2.2. The Site Owner may use the services of and information obtained from other organisations to provide information on the Site,
and makes no representations or warranties of any nature as to its accuracy, appropriateness or correctness. User agrees that such
information is provided “as is” and that the Site Owner and its online partners shall not be liable for any losses or damages that may arise
from User’s reliance on it, howsoever these may arise.
2.3. No representations or warranties, whether express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any information,
data and/or content on the Site are accordingly made. In addition and without limiting the generality of the a foregoing:
2.3.1. There is no warranty that the Site, the information or downloads shall be error-free or that they shall meet any particular
criteria of performance or quality. The Site Owner expressly disclaims all implied warranties, including without limitation, warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy;
2.3.2. Whilst reasonable measures have been taken to ensure the integrity of the Site and its contents, no warranty, whether
express or implied, is given that any files, downloads or applications available via the Site are free of viruses, Trojans, time bombs,
time-locks or any other data or code which has the ability to corrupt, damage or affect the operation of the user’s system. User is
responsible for taking their own protective measures and the Site Owner bears no liability for malicious, destructive or disabling code
transmitted form or through the Site; and
2.3.3. The Site Owner disclaims any responsibility for the verification or accuracy of any information. Information published on or
through the Site may be done so in the format in which it is received and statements from external parties are accepted as fact.
3. LINKED THIRD PARTY WEBSITE AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT
3.1. The Site may contain links to third party sites. These links are provided to User for convenience purposes only and the Site Owner
does not endorse, nor does the inclusion of any link imply the endorsement of, such sites, their owners, licensees or administrators or such
sites’ content or security practices and operations.
3.2. While the Site Owner seeks to provide links only to reputable sites or online partners, it cannot accept responsibility or
liability for the information provided on other sites, which are not under the Site’s control. There are no warranties or representations
made in respect of the privacy policies or practices of linked or any third party or advertised websites on the Site. User accesses other
Sites at their own risk.
3.3. User agrees that the Site Owner shall not be held liable, directly or indirectly, in any way for the content, the use or inability
to use or access to any linked website or any link(s) contained in a linked website, nor for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a
result of any dealings with, or as the result of the presence of such third party linked websites on the Site. Any dealings User has with
any linked websites, including advertisers, found on the Site are solely between User and the third party site.
4. LINKING AND FRAMING
4.1. User may not establish a hyperlink, frame, metatag or similar reference, whether electronically or otherwise (collectively “linking”) to this Site or any subsidiary pages or applications.
5. USAGE RESTRICTIONS
5.1. User hereby agrees that it shall not itself, nor through a third party: copy (other than for backup, archival or disaster recovery
purposes), reproduce, translate, adapt, vary, modify, lease, licence, sub-licence, encumber or in any other way deal with any portion of
the Site for any reason and in any manner, unless it is consistent with the intent and purpose of these Terms;
5.2. decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any portion of the Site;
5.3. collect service listings, descriptions or other information displayed on the Site;
5.4. write and/or develop any derivative of the Site or any other software program based on the Site;
5.5. modify or enhance the Site. In the event of User effecting any modifications or enhancements to the Site in breach of this clause,
such modifications and enhancements shall be the property of the Site Owner;
5.6. remove any identification, trademark, copyright or other notices from the Site; and
5.7. notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in these Terms, use the Site for any purpose other than pure information
purposes only.
6. SECURITY
6.1. In order to ensure the security and reliable operation of the services to all Users, the Site Owner hereby reserves the right to
take whatever action it finds necessary to preserve the security, integrity and reliability of its network and back-office applications.
6.2. User may not utilise the services and/or Site in any manner which may compromise the security of the networks or tamper with the
services or the Site in any manner whatsoever, which shall include without limitation, gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to
the Site, or delivering or attempting to deliver any unauthorised, damaging or malicious code to the Site, all of which is expressly
prohibited. Any person or entity which does so, or attempts to do so, shall be held criminally liable. Further, should the Site Owner or its
online partners suffer any damage or loss, whether directly or indirectly, as a result thereof, civil damages shall be claimed by the Site
Owner and/or its online partners against User.
6.3. Should User commit any of the offences detailed in Chapter 13 of the ECT Act (specifically sections 85 to 88 (inclusive))
User shall, notwithstanding criminal prosecution, be liable for all resulting liability, loss or damages suffered and/or incurred by the
Site Owner and its affiliates, agents and/or partners.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
7.1. For the purpose of this clause, the following words shall have the following meanings ascribed to them:
7.1.1. “copyright” means whether existing now or in the future, in and to, the software including without limitation, designs and
documentation relating thereto;
7.1.2. “intellectual property rights” means all intellectual property of any nature whatsoever owned and/or controlled directly or
under licence by the Site Owner, including without limitation, the rights, title and interest in and to all technology, source code/s, trade
secrets, logos, systems, methods, trademarks, trade names, styles, insignia, designs, patents and copyright relating to the software, whether
registered or not.
7.2. All copyright and other intellectual property rights in all content, trademarks, software, data, material, including logos,
databases, text, graphics, icons, hyperlinks, private information, designs, agreements, and multimedia works, published on or via the Site,
are the property of, or are licensed to, the Site Owner and as such are protected from infringement by local and international legislation
and treaties.
7.3. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The copyright in all content, information and logos vesting in the Site shall
continue to vest in the Site Owner and no right, title or interest in any proprietary material or information contained in the Site is
granted to User.
7.4. No logo, graphic, sound or image from the Site may be copied or retransmitted by User.
7.5. Irrespective of the existence of copyright, User acknowledges that the Site Owner is the proprietor of all material on the Site
(except where a third party is indicated as the proprietor), whether it constitutes confidential information or not, and that User has no
right, title or interest in any such material.
7.6. User is only permitted to view, copy, temporarily download to a local drive and to print the content of the Site, or any part
thereof, provided that such content is used for information purposes only.
8. RISK, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY
8.1. User’s use of this Site and the information contained on the Site is entirely at User’s own risk and User assumes full
responsibility and risk of loss resulting from the use thereof.
8.2. The transmission of information via the internet, including without limitation via a mobile application and via email, is
susceptible to monitoring and interception. User bears all risk of transmitting information in this manner. Under no circumstances shall
the Site Owner be liable for any loss, harm, or damage suffered by User as a result thereof. The Site Owner reserves the right to request
independent verification of any information transmitted via the Site and User consents to such verification where necessary.
8.3. To the extent permissible by law:
8.3.1. None of the Site Group, their affiliates, shareholders, agents, consultants or employees shall be liable for any damages
whatsoever, including without limitation any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, howsoever arising
(whether in an action arising out of contract, statute, delict or otherwise) related to the use of, or the inability to access or use the
content of the Site or any functionality thereof, or the information contained on the Site, or of any linked website or application, even
if the Site Group knows or should reasonably have known or is expressly advised thereof.
8.3.2. The liability of the Site Owner for faulty execution of the Site as well as all damages suffered by the User, whether direct or
indirect, as a result of the malfunctioning of the Site shall be limited to rectifying the malfunction, within a reasonable time and free of
charge, provided that the Site Owner is notified immediately of the damage or faulty execution of the Site. This liability shall fall away
and be expressly excluded if User attempts to correct or allows third parties to correct or attempt to correct the Site. However, in no event
shall the Site Owner or any member of the Site Group be liable to User for loss of profits or for special, incidental, consequential or
punitive losses or damages arising out of or in connection with the Site, or its use or the delivery, installation, servicing, performance
or use in combination with other computer software and/or applications.
8.3.3. User hereby unconditionally and irrevocably indemnifies the Site Group and agrees to hold the Site Group free from all loss,
damages, claims and/or costs, of whatsoever nature suffered or incurred by any of Site Group as a direct or indirect result of:
8.3.3.1. User’s use of the Service;
8.3.3.2. Software, programs and support services supplied by, obtained by or modified by User or any third party;
8.3.3.3. User’s failure to comply with any of the Terms;
8.3.3.4. The actions or requirements of any telecommunications authority or a supplier of telecommunications services or
software; and/or
8.3.3.5. Any unavailability of, or interruption in, the service.
8.3.4. The Site Owner makes no warranty or representation as to the availability, accuracy or completeness of the content of the Site.
User expressly waives and renounces all its rights of whatever nature that it may have against the Site Owner for any loss suffered by User,
as a result of information supplied being incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate.
8.3.5. User acknowledges that the information supplied by Sawubona is published/made available for information purposes
only and that any action taken by User pursuant to that information is taken at the sole risk of User.
8.4. For purposes of this clause as well as when used elsewhere in these Terms, “Site Owner” means Sawubona CI Proprietary Limited,
and “Site Group” means the Site Owner and all its online partners and/or data providers from time to time, including Lightstone Auto
Proprietary Limited, Lightstone Explore Proprietary Limited, Lightstone Explore Proprietary Limited and the Automobile Association of South
Africa NPC.
9. BREACH; CANCELLATION
9.1. This Site and these Terms may without notice, in addition to any other remedy available to the Site Owner at law or under these Terms
, including obtaining an interdict, be cancelled and/or a User may be limited or denied use of the Site, or specific performance of any
obligation whether or not the due date for performance has arrived may be claimed, in either event without prejudice to the right to claim
damages, should User:
9.1.1. breach any of these Terms;
9.1.2. use the Site in an unauthorised manner; or
9.1.3. infringe any statute, regulation, ordinance or law.
9.2. Breach of these Terms entitles the Site Owner to take legal action without prior notice to User and User agrees to
reimburse the costs associated with such legal action on an attorney and own client scale.
10. COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 43(1) OF ECT ACT
In compliance with section 43(1) of the ECT Act, the following is noted:
10.1. Full name: Sawubona CI Proprietary Limited t/a Sawubona
10.2. Registration number: 2018/113684/07
10.3. Physical address: Moraine House, The Braes, 193 Bryanston Drive, Bryanston, 2191
10.4. Fax number: N/A
10.5. Telephone number: +27 11 463 1579
10.6. Website address: https://pdvault.co/terms
10.7. e-mail address: info@pdvault.co.za.
10.8. Names of office bearers: Nicholas Adam Hughes and Tamaryn Shalom
10.9. Registered at: Pretoria
11. GENERAL COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS
11.1. User shall comply with all applicable laws, statues, ordinances and regulations pertaining to User’s use of the services and the accessing of this Site.
12. NOTICES
12.1. Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices to the Site Owner shall be given by email to info@pdvault.co.za. and to User at the email address User may specify. Notice shall be deemed given 48 hours after email is sent, unless the sending Party is notified that the email address is invalid. Notice may also be given by registered mail, in which case, notice shall be deemed given 7 days after the date of mailing. User acknowledges that all agreements, notices or other communication required to be given in terms of the law or these Terms may be given via electronic means and that such communications shall be “in writing”. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, a written notice or communication actually received by a Party shall be an adequate written notice or communication to it, notwithstanding that it was not sent to or delivered at its chosen address/es for that purpose.
13. DISPUTES
13.1. Save in respect of those provisions of these Terms which provide for their own remedies or which would be incompatible with
arbitration, in the event of any dispute of any nature whatsoever arising between the parties on any matter provided for in, or arising out
of these Terms (other than where an interdict is sought or urgent relief may be obtained from a court of competent jurisdiction), shall be
submitted to and decided by arbitration to be held with only the parties and their representatives present at Sandton, Gauteng, Republic of
South Africa.
13.2. It is the intention that the arbitration shall, where possible, be held and concluded in 21 (twenty one) days after it has been demanded. The parties shall use their best endeavours to procure the expeditious completion of the arbitration.
13.3. Save as expressly provided in these Terms to the contrary, the arbitration shall be subject to the arbitration legislation for the time being in force in the Republic of South Africa.
13.4. The arbitrator shall be an impartial practising attorney of not less than 10 (ten) years' standing appointed by the parties or,
failing agreement by the parties within 14 (fourteen) days after the arbitration has been demanded, at the request of either of the parties
shall be nominated by the President for the time being of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces (or the successor body thereto). If that
person fails or refuses to make the nomination, either party may approach the High Court of South Africa to make such an appointment. To the
extent necessary, the court is expressly empowered to do so.
13.5. The parties shall keep the evidence in the arbitration proceedings and any order made by any arbitrator confidential unless otherwise contemplated herein.
13.6. The arbitrator shall be obliged to give his award in writing fully supported by reasons.
13.7. The provisions of this clause are severable from the rest of these Terms and shall remain in effect even if these Terms are terminated for any reason.
13.8. The arbitrator shall have the power to give default judgment if any party fails to make submissions on due date and/or fails to appear at the arbitration.
13.9. Save where expressly provided elsewhere in these Terms that User shall be liable for the Site Owner’s legal costs, each party
shall pay their own arbitration costs, which they incur with their own legal advisors in respect of the negotiations, preparation for and
conclusion of the arbitration proceedings. Any joint costs, such as those of the arbitrator, shall be born jointly and equally by the
parties.
14. GENERAL CLAUSES
14.1. These Terms shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the Republic of South Africa as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within South Africa.
14.2. The Site is controlled, operated and administered by the Site Owner from its offices within the Republic of South Africa. The
Site Owner makes no representation that the content of the Site is appropriate or available for use in other locations or countries. Access
to the Site from territories or countries where the content of the Site is illegal is prohibited. Users may not use this Site in violation
of South African export laws and regulations. If the User accesses this Site from locations outside of South Africa, that User is responsible
for compliance with all local laws.
14.3. The Site Owner does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to its services, as operation of its Site may be interfered with as a result of a number of factors which are outside of its control.
14.4. If any provision of these Terms is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be struck out from these Terms and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.
14.5. Any failure to act with respect to a breach by User or others does not constitute a waiver of any right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
14.6. User shall not be entitled to cede its rights or assign its rights or delegate its obligations in terms of these Terms to any third party.
14.7. The Site Owner shall not be bound by any express or implied term, representation, warranty, promise or the like not recorded herein, whether it induced the contract and/or whether it was negligent or not.
14.8. The rule of construction that a contract shall be interpreted against the party responsible for the drafting or preparation of the contract, shall not apply.
14.9. The head notes to the paragraphs to these Terms are inserted for reference purposes only and shall not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions to which they relate.
14.10. Words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa, and words importing the masculine gender shall include females and words importing persons shall include partnerships and corporate and unincorporated entities.
14.11. When any number of days is prescribed in these Terms, same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first and inclusively of the last day unless the last day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday as officially proclaimed in the Republic of South Africa, in which case the last day shall be the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.
14.12. The expiration or termination of these Terms shall not affect such of the provisions of these Terms as expressly provide that they shall operate after any such expiration or termination or which of necessity must continue to have effect after such expiration or termination, notwithstanding that the clauses themselves do not expressly provide for this.
14.13. Where figures are referred to in numerals and in words, if there is any conflict between the two, the words shall prevail.
14.14. Expressions defined in these Terms shall bear the same meanings in schedules or annexures to these Terms which do not themselves
contain their own conflicting definitions.
14.15. These Terms, read together with the other documents available on the Site (including but not limited to the Privacy Policy)
set forth the entire understanding and agreement between the Site Group and the User with respect to the subject matter hereof.
PRIVACY POLICY
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. This policy (together with the terms and conditions of use as set out at https://pdvault.co/terms (“Site”) applies
when you use the Site. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data and/or personal information
(which terms are used interchangeably in this policy) we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) is aimed at protecting your personal information and prescribes what we may and
may not do with it. POPI created an Information Regulator that checks that companies like Sawubona
manage personal information in a responsible manner that respects your privacy.
1.2. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTED ON THIS WEBSITE
2.1. The following information may be collected and processed through the Site:
2.1.1. Information you give us - You may give us information about you by registering on the Site, completing forms on the
Site or by corresponding with us by email, phone or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use the Site,
submit requests for information or to change information on the Site, request products on the Site, participate in social media platforms
on or through the Site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our Site. The information you give us
may include your name and surname, birth date, gender, country of residence, closest city, address, email address,
phone number, age, photograph, username, password and other registration information.
2.1.2. Information we collect about you and your device – Each time you visit the Site we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, non-personal browsing habits and click patterns;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from the Site (including date and time); products you viewed, purchased or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
3. USE OF COLLECTED DATA
3.1. We shall not use any personal data collected about you through your specific action of opting out, save to process your
opt-out request. In this regard, we may be required to disclose your personal data to our affiliates (including but not limited to
Lightstone Proprietary Limited, Lightstone Auto Proprietary Limited, Lightstone Explore Proprietary Limited), our business partners
(including but not limited to the Automobile Association of South Africa NPC and motor dealerships which make use of our affiliates’
products, solutions and systems), third party service providers or
marketing bodies to ensure that your opt-out request is appropriately implemented.
3.2. We shall use non-identifiable data about you in the following ways:
- to ensure that content from the Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;
- to administer the Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; and
- to ensure the Site is safe and secure.
3.4. Please note that any reference to “we” or “us” in this Policy is intended to refer to Sawubona CI Proprietary Limited and Lightstone Auto Proprietary Limited.
4. METHODS OF PROCESSING
4.1. We collect, use, disclose, retain and dispose of your personal data in a proper manner, for authorised
purposes and take appropriate security measures to prevent
unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction.
4.2. The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related
to the purposes indicated.
5. SECURITY
5.1. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to
protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted via the internet. Any transmission is at your
own risk. Once we have received your personal data,
we will use procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
5.2. Within our organisation, we restrict access of your personal data to those of our employees who have a business reason
for knowing such data. We also maintain appropriate and reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your
personal data from any unauthorised access.
6. PLACE
6.1. All data you provide to us is stored on our secure servers in South Africa although, in the future, we may consider the storage of data at a destination outside of South Africa. We will only transfer your personal data to facilities or parties outside South Africa where such transfer is compliant with applicable laws and regulations. For your information, this includes circumstances where:
- the territory is recognised as offering adequate standards of protection; or
- we have put in place adequate safeguards, including the implementation of standard contractual provisions which are approved as providing adequate safeguards with respect to the protection of your privacy.
7. RETENTION TIME
Your data is kept only for the time permitted by law.
8. INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES
8.1. The Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and to identify the device you use to connect to the Site.
This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Site and allows us to make improvements to your experience.
By continuing to use the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
8.2. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies
you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site.
9. YOUR RIGHTS
9.1. You have the right, at any time, to know whether personal data has been stored as well as the content and origin of the data to
verify its accuracy. You also have the right to ask that your data be supplemented, blocked, erased, updated or corrected. Requests should be sent
to us at info@pdvault.co.za. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing
you with details of the data we hold about you or as prescribed by law.
9.2. We can refuse to delete your information if we are required by law to retain it or if we need it to protect our legitimate rights.
10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time and for any reason. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be notified to you by posting an updated version of this policy on this page with an updated revision date and, where appropriate, by email.
11. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties, our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates . If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites and any services that may be accessible through them have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or for any personal data that may be collected through these websites or services, such as contact and location data. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites or use these services
Last Updated: 22 August 2018