INTRODUCTION
1.1 Welcome to our website, http://leapjourney.org/ (“the Website”). The Website is owned by The LEAP Academy for Graduates and Professionals (Pty) Ltd Registration Number 2015 /234840/07 (“LEAP Academy”) and is hosted by WordPress.org. The Website is located in the Republic of South Africa.
1.2 This document sets out the terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) applicable to your access and use of the website. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully as in terms of Section 11 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions 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 Website, web pages or any part thereof. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions then you must cease your use or access of or to the Website in any manner whatsoever.
1.3 We reserve the right to revise and amend the Terms and Conditions at any time. All amendments to the Terms and Conditions will be uploaded to the Website. You are advised to review the Terms and Conditions from time to time to ensure that you are up to date with any amendments.
INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS
2.1 Clause headings shall not be used in the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions.
2.2 Unless the context clearly indicates the contrary intention, words importing the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa, and words importing any gender shall include the other genders, and words importing persons shall include corporate bodies and vice versa.
2.3 Time periods expressed in terms of days 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, in which case the last day shall be the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.
2.4 If any definition contains a provision having substantive effect, it shall be given effect to as such.
2.5 The following expressions shall have the meanings set out against them:
(a) “Data Message” shall mean a data message as defined in the Electronic Communications Act 25 of 2002;
(b) “Personal Information” means personal information as defined in the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000;
(c) “LEAP Academy” means LEAP Academy for Graduates and Professionals (Pty) Ltd Registration Number 2015 /234840/07 and any division and/or subsidiary of LEAP Academy;
(d) “Terms and Conditions” means these terms and conditions apply to your access and/or use of the Website;
(e) “User” means all individuals, whether natural or juristic accessing the website for any reason whatsoever;
(f) “Website” means the mobile web based portal http://leapjourney.org/ including any subdomain of such website;
(g) “You/Your” means all individuals, whether natural or juristic accessing the website for any reason whatsoever.
USE OF THE WEBSITE
3.1 You agree that Your use of the Website is for lawful purposes only and that You will not, without limiting the generality of the foregoing statement, use the Website:
(a) for any unlawful purpose;
(b) to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material in violation of any applicable law or regulation;
(c) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others;
(d) in a manner that will violate the privacy or other personal rights of others;
(e) for the transmission of unlawful material;
(f) to gain unauthorised access to other computer systems.
3.2. In addition to the foregoing, the following conduct is prohibited in respect of the Website:
(a) Using any robot, spider, other automatic device and/or manual process to:
(1) monitor or copy any part of the Website;
(2) generate automated postings and/or spam;
(3) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.
(b) Taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website infrastructure.
(c) Accessing the Website by any means other than through the interface that is provided by LEAP Academy or attempting to access the Website without first logging in through the Website log-in page (if applicable).
(d) Reverse assembling or otherwise attempting to discover any source code relating to the Website or any tool therein, except to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
(e) Attempting to access any area of the Website to which access is not authorised.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
By using this Website or communicating with LEAP Academy by electronic means You consent and acknowledge that any and all agreements, notices, disclosures, or any other communications satisfy any legal requirement, including but not limited to the requirement that such communications shall be “in writing”.
AGREEMENT IN TERMS OF SECTION 21 OF THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONS ACT 25 of 2002
5.1 The User agrees to be bound to these terms and conditions and the parties agree that such agreement is concluded in South Africa at the time the User enters the Website for the first time.
5.2 No information or data on the Website shall constitute an offer to do business, but is an invitation to do business.
5.3 No email communication shall be deemed to have been received by LEAP Academy until a response has been issued by LEAP Academy acknowledging receipt thereof. An automatically generated response from LEAP Academy shall not fulfill this requirement.
5.4 Electronic signatures, encryption and/or authentication is not required for valid electronic communications between the User and LEAP Academy.
5.5 The User agrees and warrants to LEAP Academy that any Data Messages that are sent to LEAP Academy from a computer, IP address or mobile device ordinarily used by or owned by the User, was sent and/or authorised to be sent by the User.
LINKS
6.1 The Website may provide links to other websites for Your convenience. Such links must not be construed to constitute any relationship or endorsement of the linked third party. Use of the linked third party website and information or content set out therein is done at Your own risk and LEAP Academy shall not be held responsible, whether directly or indirectly, in any way for the contents, use or inability to use or access any linked websites or any links contained in a linked website.
6.2 LEAP Academy may provide links to other websites for Your convenience or contact details of lenders. You acknowledge that any use of this information is done at Your own risk and LEAP Academy is not responsible, whether directly or indirectly, in any way for the outcomes of any interactions You may have as a result of Your use of this information.
6.3 Any third party that would like to link their website to the Website must obtain prior written permission from LEAP Academy by sending such request to info@leapacademy.co.za, who shall have the sole discretion to determine whether or not to approve the link and if so on what terms and conditions.
DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY POLICY
7.1 We respect Your privacy. You may be entitled to access or view parts of the Website without providing any personal information. Please note that we do collect certain non-personal information on Your use of the Website in order to inter alia collect aggregated data and assess the popularity of the Website and how we can improve the Website for our Users.
7.2 Access to or viewing of particular parts of the Website will not be possible without providing certain personal information. LEAP Academy shall take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of Users and shall comply with the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013. Personal information shall be defined as set out in the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000.
7.3 Personal and/or business or company information provided to LEAP Academy via this Website will only be used in accordance with our privacy policy which is set out below. Please read the privacy policy terms and conditions carefully, as by providing us with Your personal information (including information regarding a company, business or other legal entity) You are consenting to its use in accordance with our privacy policy.
7.4 LEAP Academy may collect (whether electronically or submitted to us by You), store and use inter alia the following personal information of such User for the purposes set out in clause 7.5 below:
(a) Name and surname;
(b) title;
(c) contact numbers;
(d) email address; and/or
(e) IP address
(f) non-personal browsing habits and click patterns.
7.5 LEAP Academy collects, stores and processes the information set out in clause 7.4 above for inter alia the following purposes:
(a) Communication with You as requested;
(b) Providing requested services to You;
(c) Authenticating You if required;
(d) Providing You with access to restricted pages on the Website, if applicable; and
(e) Compiling non-personal statistical information about browsing habits, click patterns and access to the Website.
7.6 LEAP Academy may collect (whether electronically or submitted to us by You), store and use any information supplied by You during the course of Your use of the Website. Such information may be personal information as set out above or relating to your business, company or other legal entity. LEAP Academy may collect, store, use and process (including sharing with third parties if applicable) such information in accordance with the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 and any other applicable legislation in the Republic of South Africa. You warrant that You are authorised to provide us with any information You may supply to us and hereby consent to LEAP Academy’s processing and any further processing of such personal information.
COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
8.1 All intellectual property on the Website, including but not limited to content, trademarks (or any confusingly similar trademarks), logos, pictures, videos, downloads, domain names, patents, design elements, software, source code, meta tags, databases, text, graphics, icons and hyperlinks are the property of or licensed to LEAP Academy and are protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation and treaties. All rights in and/or to the content of the Website are reserved and retained by the owners of such rights.
8.2 Users of this website are granted a limited license for general use, granting the User, subject to these terms and conditions, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited and revocable right to access, use, download and otherwise copy the current and future content of the Website for personal, non-commercial and informational purposes only.
SECURITY
9.1 If access to any portion of the Website requires a login and Your details, all reasonable steps will be taken to secure Your personal information. You undertake not to divulge your username and password to any other person.
9.2 Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Website, including, but without limitation:
(a) Accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorized to access;
(b) Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
(c) Attempting to interfere with the service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the website, overloading, “flooding”, “spamming”, “mail bombing” or “crashing”;
(d) Sending and/or posting unsolicited email, including promotions; advertising content and/or advertising of products or services;
(e) Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting;
(f) Deleting or revising any material posted by any other person or entity;
(g) Using any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this website or any activity being conducted on this site.
9.3 Violations of system or network security may result in civil and/or criminal liability.
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
10.1 It is a term and condition of the use of the Website that You expressly agree that use of the Website is entirely at Your own risk. The Website contents are provided on an \”as is\” basis without any warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the accuracy of the contents of the Website. Without limiting the generality of this clause, the following warranties are expressly excluded:
(a) compatibility of the Website with your technology, equipment or software;
(b) uninterrupted or error free functionality of the Website; and
(c) non-infringement of any rights.
10.2 LEAP Academy makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of the information, material, services, software, text, and graphics set out on the Website. Insofar as the Website contains links to any other internet websites, you acknowledge and agree that LEAP Academy does not have control over any such websites and shall therefore not be liable in any way for the contents of any such linked website, nor for any costs, expenses, losses or damages of any nature whatsoever arising from your access and/or use of any such website.
10.3 Whilst LEAP Academy has taken reasonable measures to ensure the integrity of the Website and its contents, no warranty, whether express or implied, is given that the Website will operate error-free or that any files, downloads or applications available via the Website are free of viruses, trojans, bombs, time-locks or any other data, code or harmful mechanisms which has the ability to corrupt or affect the operation of your system.
10.4 In no event shall LEAP Academy, its employees and/or any third party contributors of material to the Website be liable for any costs, expenses, losses and damages of any nature arising out of or in any way connected with Your use of the Website, Your inability to use the Website and/or the operational failure of the Website.
10.5 You indemnify LEAP Academy, its owners, directors, employees, officials, agents, suppliers or representative and keep them fully indemnified from and against any loss or damage suffered or liability incurred by Your or in respect of any third party, which arises from Your use of the Website.
10.6 Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, LEAP Academy takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.
COSTS
Any costs incurred by Users in respect of any advice sought in relation to these Terms and Conditions shall be for their own account.
SEVERABILITY
Each and every term of the terms and conditions must be read as separable from the other Terms and Conditions. Should any court or qualified authority find that any of the terms are invalid or unenforceable, the other terms and conditions will remain valid and enforceable, despite any invalidity or unenforceability of an individual term.
NON-WAIVER
The failure of either party to require performance of any provision of the Terms and Conditions at any time, shall not affect the right of such party to require performance of that provision or of any other provision in the future. No waiver by either party with respect to a breach of any provision of the Terms and Conditions shall be construed as a waiver with respect to any continuing or subsequent breach of that provision, or as a waiver of any other right in the Terms and Conditions.
LAW
The Website is owned and operated from the Republic of South Africa. These Terms and Conditions and the use or inability to use the Website are accordingly governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa.
CONTACT DETAILS
If You would like to contact LEAP Academy please use the contact details set out below:
The Webmaster
info@leapacademy.co.za
