Terms & Conditions

1. By accessing and looking at this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions contained herein. Should you opt not to accept the Terms of Use stated herein, please exit our website and refrain from using it in future.
2. We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions of Use, or any of the site contents at will and may suspend or discontinue the whole or any part of this site in our sole and absolute discretion. Any such changes shall be effective immediately upon publishing such modifications to the website.  Read our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use frequently to ensure that you stay informed.
3. Information provided is for general information and is not intended as legal advice. Always consult with a professional to obtain legal advice, as every situation depends on its own facts and circumstances. Skolierxpress assume no responsibility with regard to any inaccuracies, errors or omissions. Whilst Skolierxpress take reasonable care to ensure that the information on the site is correct and up to date, users of the site should not assume that this will invariably be the case.  Skolierxpress do not give any warranties as to the accuracy, timeliness, validity and safety of any information appearing on the site.
4. This website is published via Skolierxpress, Gauteng , SOUTH AFRICA
5. All intellectual property on this website, including but not limited to copyright, content, trademarks, domain names, software, source code, meta tags, text and hyperlinks are owned by Skolierxpress and it is as such protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation and treaties. Unauthorised use of any or all of the intellectual property on this website is strictly prohibited. Skolierxpress will only consider properly motivated written applications for consent to use its intellectual property rights and may give or withhold permission in its sole and absolute discretion and subject to such conditions as it chooses.
6. Users may not make use of any automated retrieval robot, screen scraper or similar technology to obtain information on this website. Skolierxpress do not guarantee that any data or files downloaded or accessed through the site are free of worms, viruses, or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. Skolierxpress do not always monitor your use of the site, including email, however, reserves the right to do so and by using this site, you hereby consent to the said monitoring.
7. Users are prohibited to attempt any violations to the security of this website or the server and computer network that support the website. Any violations may result in civil or criminal liability by the User.
8. Skolierxpress will not voluntarily disclose any information about individual Users to third parties, except as described in our Terms and Conditions of Use or to comply with applicable laws or valid legal process, or to protect the rights of Skolierxpress or others.
9. South African laws are applicable regarding the use or abuse of this website. Users consent to the Jurisdiction of the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg and/or the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court in the event of any civil dispute.
10. Our website contains links to other sites and Skolierxpress accepts no responsibility for the privacy practices or terms of use of such other sites.
11. We use IP addresses to analyse trends and these IP addresses are not linked to any personally identifiable information.
12. Cookies: A cookie is a piece of data stored on the User’s hard drive containing information about the User. When the User closes his/her browser, the cookie terminates. Cookies are used only for the collection of anonymous web site traffic statistics.  Some of our advertisers may use cookies on our site.  We have no control over these cookies.  Our Terms and Conditions of Use only cover the use of cookies by our site and it does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers/sponsors/partner’s/service providers.
13. Blogs: Should you submit any information or comments to the blog on our site, be conscious that any such information can be read, collected, or used by other Users. Skolierxpress accept no responsibility and/or liability for such disclosure by you.
14. The articles by Attorneys/psychologist or other writers are their own opinions and not necessarily those of anyone else, or the letter of the Law.
15. E-mails: E-mail transmissions contain information which may be legally privileged. The information is intended for the sole and exclusive use of the recipient outlined. If you receive e-mail in error, please notify Skolierxpress immediately by telephone and arrange for the return of the original documents to us.  Any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking of any action in reliance of the content of this e-mail information is strictly prohibited.  Please note that all e-mail within Skolierxpress is subject to continuous and ad hoc filtering, scrutiny and reporting.  E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure and error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, created by a non-authorised source, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.  Skolierxpress shall not be responsible for, and disclaims all liability for any loss, liability, damage (whether direct, indirect or consequential) and/or expense of any nature whatsoever which may be suffered by you or any third party as a result of or which may be attributable, directly or indirectly, to your receiving of this e-mail.
16. The User acknowledges that he/she has read, understands and accepts the content of the Terms and Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy.
17. A copy of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act of 2002 is available at internet.org.za/ect_act.html.
18. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
This privacy policy is for this website nicolaarend.co.za and served by Skolierxpress and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. The Privacy policy also explains the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information.
19. Website

This Website is governed by the Electronic Communication and Transaction Act 2002 of The Republic of South Africa. This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience.
20. Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [http://www.google.com/privacy.html].
Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
21. Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website, and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advice users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates too. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
22. External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites.
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
23. Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
24. Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
25. Shortened Links in Social Media

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Jurisdiction South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria. Skolierxpress

Privacy statement

Skolierxpress, its successors and assigns Privacy Statement
Skolierxpress, its successors and assigns (the Company, we, us, our) treat the personal information we collect through our Channels (this website, associated websites, mobile sites, mobile applications and other channels) as private and confidential. This Privacy Statement and our Cookie Notice applies when you use our Channels.

Lawful processing of personal information
Skolierxpress is committed to processing personal information in keeping with its responsibilities under the applicable data protection laws.
The following conditions of lawful processing of personal information are the principles in terms of which we will be processing the collected personal information. They are:
The Company as the responsible party and through its employees will make sure that personal information is processed in a lawful and responsible manner.
Processing limitation – we shall lawfully collect personal information for a defined purpose and where applicable, with the consent of our clients and third parties.
Purpose specification – we will only use personal information for the purposes that our clients, third parties and employees expect us to use it for. Further processing limitation – where a processing activity is seen as further processing (means a new purpose for processing personal information) and this new purpose is inconsistent with the original purpose (original reason we collected personal information), we will make sure that our processing activities meet the requirements of the applicable data protection laws.
Information quality – we will take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is accurate, complete and updated and not misleading.
Openness – from the start, we will be open, clear and honest with our clients, third parties and employees on how and why we use their personal information and how we protect their personal information.
Security safeguards – we will apply and follow appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational measures to make sure that the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal information are secured. These measures will also be applied to protect personal information against loss, damage, unauthorised destruction or unlawful access.
Data subject participation – we have processes in place on certain platforms for our clients, third parties and employees to access, correct and delete personal information and exercise their rights in terms of applicable data protection laws.

 

Collection
We collect and process the following categories and types of personal information through the relevant Channels, including:
personal details (this can be your name, age, passport information, biometric information, information about personal interests);
contact details (this can be your mobile number and email address);
details related to a client (this can be the business contact details of an agent or representative, relationship with the client or related parties, shareholder information); and
transactional details (this can be information about products, services, requests, queries or complaints).
We will collect personal information in the following ways:
directly from you, and
where lawful and reasonable, from third parties and public sources. This includes credit/ public reporting and government agencies.
If you decide to give us express consent, we will use your personal information to:
Meet our responsibilities to you.
Process your personal information for ordinary business purposes (this includes to open and maintain your account or online profile, execute transactions, administer claims/ questions or queries where applicable, manage our risks and maintain our overall relationship with you).
Carry out statistical and other analyses to identify potential markets and trends, evaluate and improve our business (this includes improving existing and developing new products and services). Consent will not be obtained if we anonymise/de-identify the personal information.
Tell you about similar services and products available within The Company Group or partner services and products. If you wish, you may opt out from receiving such information at any time by choosing the “Unsubscribe” option provided in every communication that we send to you.

Comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Skolierxpress will not intentionally or knowingly collect personal information directly from minors (anyone under the age of 18). The personal information of minors will be collected through their legal guardian or parent only where products or services are obtained for the minors.
The Company will only use and share your personal information where it is necessary for us to carry out our lawful business activities. To enable you to fully understand the way in which we process your personal information, we have described the different lawful grounds for such processing in detail below:
Consent – We may process your personal information for a specific and explicitly defined purpose where you, or a competent person in the case of personal information relating to a minor, provide us with your express consent for such processing or where law requires.
Contractual need – We may process your personal information where it is necessary to enter into a contract with you in order for us to provide our products or services to you or to perform our obligations under that contract. Please note that if you do not agree to provide us with the requested personal information, it may not be possible for us to continue to operate your account or provide Services/ Products to you.
Compliance with an obligation imposed by law- When you apply for a product or service, we are required by law to collect and process certain personal information about you. Please note that if you do not agree to provide us with the requested personal information, it may not be possible for us to continue to operate your account or provide services/ Products to you.
Legitimate interests of the Company – We may process your personal information where it is in our legal interests to do so as an organisation and without harming your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms (for example, for marketing purposes, site maintenance, etc.).

When can we process or share your personal information?
We will process your personal information if you give us your consent willingly or according to the grounds of lawful processing highlighted above. If we need your consent, we will notify you through our product and services agreements or application processes through our various authorised Channels.

We will only share your personal information if:
the law requires it;
we have a public duty to share the personal information;
our or your legitimate interests require us to share the personal information;
it is necessary to conclude or perform due to an agreement between you and us; or
you agreed that we may share your personal information.

Personal Information sharing and data transfers
We will not share your personal information to external organisations that are not our service providers, unless business operations require the processing of your personal information in other countries, either to carry out processing based on your instructions or for ordinary business purposes. As specified by the above purposes, we may share your personal information with any of the parties mentioned below, located in any jurisdiction: Any member The Company Group.
Professional advisers like auditors, third-party vendors, or independent contractors who process personal information on behalf of The Company to support our business.
Our business partners who provide their products and services to you.
Any individual who needs your personal information due to foreign or local law or regulation.
Any court of justice, regulatory body, taxation authority (including any authority investigating an offence) or their agents.
Any debt collection agency, credit bureau, insurer or broker, direct or indirect provider of credit protection and fraud prevention agencies.
Any financial institution to conduct credit checks, anti-money laundering related checks, for fraud prevention and detection of crime purposes.

The third party, who is located outside of South Africa and receives the personal information, will need to comply to either a law, or binding corporate rules or a binding agreement which states that they will provide an adequate level of protection to your personal information. This means that they have to agree to lawfully process your personal information and protect your personal in the same manner as we do.
The transfer of your personal information will be based one of the following conditions:

You provide your consent to the transfer.
The transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which you are a party.
The transfer is for your benefit, and it is not reasonably practical to obtain your consent to that transfer; and if it were reasonably practicable to obtain such consent, you would be likely to give it.

Storing personal information
We will store and keep your personal information according to the retention (holding) periods defined by law for legitimate business purposes and will take reasonably practicable steps to make sure that it is kept up to date and deleted and archived according to our defined retention schedules.
Our security practices
The security of your personal information is important to us. We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational measures to prevent loss, unauthorised destruction, damage or access to your personal information by unauthorised third parties. The security of your personal information is important to us. We make sure that we implement organisational and technical procedures to keep your personal information safe.
However, you must not share or send us any personal information over unauthorised channels, since it is not a secure way of communication and carries a risk of interception and unauthorised access. You should only share personal information over authorised channels of Skolierxpress.

Marketing by electronic means
We would like to share information about our own products, services and special offers that are similar to the products or services used by you, via your preferred method of communication (as indicated to us), such as email, text message, social media platforms or notification on your mobile application. Subject to your express consent and the option to opt-out or unsubscribe at any time, we may also share information with you about similar products, services and special offers of our partner companies. If you have opted-in to receive marketing communications, you may always opt out at a later stage using the link shared below or clicking on the “Unsubscribe” option included in every marketing communication sent to you. You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of Group. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please request for us to mark you as ‘No’ to Marketing.