GENERAL

National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa, (hereinafter: the Authority) offers the information on this on-line site/internet site (hereinafter: the service) pursuant to the following terms.

The term "User" as follows shall mean each person who establishes or accesses a connection to the service.

COPYRIGHT

According to the law of copyright in RSA and pursuant to international treaties, copyright in the office's publications, including those provided by the service, belong to the Republic of South Africa. These rights apply, inter alia, to text. Pictures, drawings, maps, audio tracts, video tracts, graphics and program applications (hereinafter: the protected material), unless stated explicitly that the copyright in the protected material belongs to another party.

User may make "fair use" of the protected material as set out under law. Such fair use includes quoting from the protected material in a reasonable manner.

When quoting from the protected material, User must attribute the source of the quotation, whether it is the office or a third party. User may not alter, modify or in any other fashion change the protected material, and may not do any other act which might diminish the value of the protected material in a manner which would cast aspersion on the creator of the protected material.

Subject to the law of copyright, User may not copy, redistribute, retransmit or publish protected material, without the prior written consent of the office.

LIABILITY

The service is provided to the public "as is".

National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa shall not be held liable for the suitability of the service to User's needs. Nor shall the Ministry be held liable for any error or mistake found in the material provided by the service.

National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa shall not be held liable for any changes made in the material provided by the service if such changes were made by User or by a third party. User alone shall bear all responsibility for the way in which he/she uses the service.

National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa shall not be held liable for any loss or damage caused to User or third parties arising directly or indirectly from the use of the service, including loss or damage due to the use of applications that were downloaded directly through the service or that were activated by using the service, including ActiveX, JavaScript and Java.

For the purposes of the above terms, National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa includes its employees and agents.

LINKS

This site contains links to external sites. The following conditions shall apply to the use of these links, without derogating from the other conditions in these “Terms of Use”.

The links are solely for the convenience of User.

Unless otherwise stipulated in this site, no legal or commercial relationship exists between the office and external sites not maintained by National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (third party sites), and the office has no control over the content of said third party sites.

National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa is not responsible for the content of third-party sites.

Links to third party sites shall not be construed as an endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa, including documents and other materials to be found therein, of the operators of said sites or of products offered on said sites.

At the time each link was included in this site, it was found that the material in the linked-to site was relevant to the purposes of this service, and that the link itself was functional. However, it is possible that with the passing of time, the contents of the linked-to sites have changed. If User feels that material on a linked-to site is not fitting, or if User finds that a link is no longer operational, he/she is requested to inform the Webmaster of such. In addition, if User feels that there is an additional site relevant to the subject matter of this service, he/she is requested to inform the Webmaster of such.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Personal information given to the office through this service will be kept confidential in accordance with The Privacy Law of the Republic of South Africa.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Unless otherwise stated, National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa owns the intellectual property rights in the website and material and content on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• Republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
• Sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
• Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• Edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
• Redistribute material from this website

ACCEPTABLE USE

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing.

RESTRICTED ACCESS

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website.

If you are provided with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa may disable your user ID and password in its sole discretion without notice or explanation.

QUERIES

Any questions about this service, or about the activities of the office may be sent directly to the office by e-mail, at the following address: ­­­

ottsupport@Nemisa.co.za

Answers will be given as soon as possible, but no later than 14 days from receipt of the query.

Please contact us on ottsupport@nemisa.co.za for any additional information on the service or any technical challenges.