Square One Consulting | Website Terms and Conditions of Use version: 1.2 | Last updated: 15/04/2025
THIS TERMS OF USE POLICY (“POLICY”) GOVERNS THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY SQUARE ONE CONSULTING (PTY) LTD IN CONNECTION WITH THE SQUARE ONE CONSULTING WEBSITE (“WEBSITE”)
LOCATED AT WWW.SQUAREONECONSULTING.CO.ZA YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO THIS POLICY. BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR CONSENT TO PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. SQUARE ONE CONSULTING MAY AMEND THIS POLICY AT ANY TIME. AMENDED TERMS SHALL BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON THE POSTING OF THE REVISED POLICY AND ANY SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITY IN RELATION TO THE WEBSITE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY SUCH AMENDED TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY TERM IN THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
Acceptance Use
By accessing or using the website of Square One Consulting (Pty) Ltd (“Square One”, “we”, “us” or “our”) available at www.squareoneconsulting.co.za (“Website”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities:
- Use the Website or its services for unlawful purposes or in a manner inconsistent with these Terms or otherwise authorised on the Website
- Modify, copy, reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise tamper with any portion of the Website, its software, or underlying code in an unauthorised manner.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, create derivative works of, modify, disrupt, otherwise tamper or disassemble the technology we use to provide our Website (and/or related services) or otherwise attempt to obtain our Website content or source code
- Bypass, modify, defeat, reverse-engineer, disassemble, tamper with or circumvent any of the security features of our Website, including altering any digital rights management functionality of our Website
- Remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice contained on our Website
- Interfere with or damage our Website or our servers through the use of viruses, bots, Trojans, harmful code, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information, or similar methods or technologies that cause harm to our Website
- Impersonate another person or entity, misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity (including us), or use a false identity when communicating with Square One Consulting
- Collect, manually or through an automatic process, information about other users or our Website
- Submit false or misleading information to us or post material that infringes on a third party’s intellectual property rights.
- Engage in any activity that interferes with any third party’s ability to use or enjoy, or our ability to provide our Website
- Engage in any unauthorised linking, framing, or mirroring of the Website
- Transmit spam, unsolicited emails, chain letters, or similar communications
- “Deep link” or frame, inline link or mirror any part of our Website without our written permission
- Engage, directly or indirectly, in transmission of “spam,” chain letters, junk mail or any other type of unsolicited communication AND Assist or encourage any third party in engaging in any activity restricted by these Terms of Use If you breach these restrictions, you may be subject to prosecution and damages and/or prohibited from using our Website or benefitting from the Square One Consulting services.
Any breach of these restrictions may result in legal action, damages claims and you may be subject to prosecution.
Third Party Sites
This Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not under our control, Square One Consulting has no control over such external websites and is not responsible for their content, privacy practices, or any damages arising from your use of them. We are not responsible for the contents on any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites, or your dealings with the owners of such sites. We are not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave our Website, and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any third-party website or service that you visit.
Representations, Warranties and Disclaimers
The Website and all related content are provided “as is” and “as available” without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. We do not guarantee:
- That the Website will be error-free or uninterrupted;
- That any defects will be corrected;
- That the Website is free of viruses or other harmful components.
Use of this Website is entirely at your own risk. Applicable South African law may not allow certain limitations of liability; in such cases, the maximum liability shall be limited to the extent permissible by law.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, our Website and all information, software, documentation, materials, services and publications on our Website are provided “as-is” and on an “as available” basis without warranty of any kind and Square One Consulting hereby disclaims all warranties either expressed or implied, including but
not limited to, all warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, title and non-infringement.
We do not represent or warrant that our Website and our Website services will be uninterrupted or error-free, that the defects will be corrected, or that our Website or the servers that make our Website available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not make any warranties or representations regarding the use of
the materials on our Website in terms of their correctness, accuracy, adequacy, usefulness, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. Except as expressly provided otherwise, you assume all risks concerning the suitability and accuracy of the information on our Website materials, publications and documents. Square One Consulting assumes no responsibility for and disclaims all liability for any such inaccuracies, errors or omissions in our website, materials, publications and documents and in any other reference. Applicable law may not allow certain limitations or exclusions on warranties; hence the above limitations shall apply to you to the fullest extent permissible given the applicable law.
In no event and under no circumstance will Square One Consulting and/or its respective suppliers or agents be liable for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of, or the inability to use, our Website or materials on our Website, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such
damages, whether in an action of contract, negligence or delictual action.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Square One Consulting, its directors, managers, employees, agents, and its affiliates (the “indemnified parties”) harmless from any damage, loss, cost or expense (including without limitation, attorneys’ fees and costs) incurred in connection with any third-party claim, demand or action (“claim”) brought or asserted against any of the indemnified parties: alleging facts or circumstances that would constitute a breach of any provision of these terms of use by you; arising from, related to, or connected with your comments, your use of our Website, including any use by your employees, or your violation of any rights of
another. If you are obligated to provide indemnification pursuant to this provision, we may, in our sole and absolute discretion, control the disposition of any claim at your sole cost and expense. Without limitation of the foregoing, you may not settle, compromise or in any other manner dispose of any claim without our express written consent.
User Representations
By using this Website, you represent and warrant to Square One Consulting that:
- You have the legal capacity and authority to accept these Terms.
- You have the full power and authority to enter into and perform your obligations under these Terms of Use;
- Your agreement to be bound by and comply with these Terms of Use do not constitute a breach of or conflict with any other agreement or arrangement by which you are bound, or any applicable laws, regulations or rules;
- These Terms of Use are your legal, valid and binding obligations, enforceable in accordance with their terms and conditions;
- You will not infringe the patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other intellectual property or proprietary right of Square One Consulting or any third party in your use of our Website; and
- You will comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations in your use of our Website, including these Terms of Use.
If you are under the age of 18, you represent and warrant that you have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use this Website. For purposes herein, ‘you’ or ‘your’ shall be any person accessing this Website or utilising any of the services offered by Square One Consulting on this Website including the parent(s) or legal
guardian(s) of a minor who utilizes the services for the benefit of such minor.
User Content
Square One Consulting may provide interactive areas on the Website, in which you/ other Website users may post communications.
Where applicable, any content submitted or posted by you remains your intellectual
property. However, by submitting content on the Website, you grant Square One Consulting a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute such content for operational and marketing purposes.
You are solely responsible for all content you submit and agree not to post anything unlawful, defamatory, or infringing.
- You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials (“Content”), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not Square One Consulting, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Square One Consulting Sites. Square One Consulting does not control the Content posted via the Square One Consulting Site.
- Under no circumstances will Square One Consulting be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Website. You further understand that the internet has no geographical boundaries, and you therefore agree to comply with all relevant agreements, rules and regulations regarding online conduct and acceptable Content.
- Square One Consulting does not claim ownership of any Content submitted and/or posted by you on the Website. However, by submitting and/or posting any Content to the Website, you grant Square One Consulting a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such Content. You also permit any Website user to access, display, view, store and reproduce such Content for personal use.
All rights in the Website and the content on the Website including copyright, design rights, database rights, trade marks, patents, inventions, knowhow, source codes and any other intellectual property rights in any of the foregoing are reserved for Square One Consulting and/or Square One Consulting’s content and technology
providers.
- The Square One Consulting logo displayed is subject to trademark and/or copyright protection. The text, images, graphics, and their arrangement on the Website are all subject to copyright and other intellectual property protection. These objects may not be copied for commercial use or distribution (unless otherwise indicated), nor may these objects be modified or reposted to other websites without written consent.
- The Website may contain further text, images, graphics, that are subject to the copyright of third parties and You agree not to use such materials in a manner that violates the rights of such third parties.
- You may not (and may not authorise another party to): frame or otherwise co-brand the Website (for example, by displaying a name, logo, trademark or other means of attribution) in a manner that is reasonably likely to give a user the impression that You or a third party has the right to display, publish or distribute the Website.
- No license to Square One Consulting’s intellectual property or the intellectual property of third parties has been granted to You unless otherwise indicated.
- You may view, download and print content from the Website for information and non-commercial purpose use only.
- You may not modify, distribute, or reproduce any material or content whether paper or digital from the Website for commercial use without prior written consent.
- You may not use any part of materials on this Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence from Square One Consulting or their licensors to do so.
Unauthorised Access
You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website. This includes the use of any malicious or damaging software or code, exploiting security vulnerabilities or engaging in any form of cyber-attack in order to gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website.
Termination
Square One Consulting reserves the right to suspend or terminate access to the Website at any time, without notice or liability, for any reason, including breach of these Terms.
We may, in our discretion and without any liability, change, modify, suspend, make improvements to or discontinue any aspect of our Website at any time without prior notice. We may deny you access to all or part of our Website at any time for any reason or no reason at all.
Governing Law
The Website is governed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Any litigation arising out of or relating to this Agreement must be filed and pursued exclusively in South Africa, and you consent to the jurisdiction of and venue of such courts.
Amendments
Square One Consulting reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon publication on this Website. All amended Terms are immediately and automatically effective after they are posted on to the Website. Use of the Website shall be governed by such amended Terms.
You are encouraged to review these Terms periodically.
Retention of Information
We retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Once personal information is no longer required, it will be securely deleted or de-identified.
On receipt of instructions from You, Square One Consulting will destroy or delete a record of personal information about You that Square One Consulting is no longer authorised to retain. This is subject to certain exceptions such as retaining records that Square One Consulting is required by law to retain. Square One Consulting is entitled to retain de-identified information for authorised purposes. In the event that You wish to revoke all consent pertaining to Your Personal Information and/or You would like Square One Consulting to remove and/or delete Your Personal Information entirely, You may contact Square One Consulting via email to
info@sq1consulting.co.za
Entire Agreement
The Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Square One Consulting and supersede any prior agreements.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
Waiver
Any failure by us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Headings are for convenience only.
Contact Us
Name of Organisation: Square One Consulting (Pty) Ltd.
E-mail address: info@sq1consulting.co.za
Website Address: www.squareoneconsulting.co.za