Terms And Conditions

https://seekabiz.co.za/

(the ‘Website’) is owned and managed by Seek A Biz (which will hereinafter be referred to as ‘Seek A Biz’).

Guests to the website (hereinafter known as “users”) including are bound by this user agreement. If you oppose this user agreement, you are advised to discontinue utilising this website. By proceeding to use Seek A Biz your actions authorise recognition of this agreement. By accepting this user agreement, it’s recognised that you have read and agreed with all the content therein.

Visitors under the age of 18 years may submit and listings. By submitting a business listing, you are establishing that you are over the age of 18 years.

The website is presented as it is, and the use of this website is at your own judgement. Neither Seek A Biz, its Owners, Employees, Agents, Service Providers or Suppliers are to be held accountable for any damages or losses associating to or resulting from the use of the website or the products and services traded through its use.

Seek A Biz services 

Seek A Biz manages the website as an online business directory through which users have the capability to search for and find a collection of businesses offering products and services for sale. All goods and services are posted by third parties.

In certain occurrences and situations, the website will provide links to the website of the businesses, and may include promotions that are relevant to the business or other third parties and their products and services.

It is important to understand that businesses, their products, and services are not representational of the entirety of the suppliers accessible in the market and Seek A Biz cannot ensure that the prices, rates, registered businesses, ratings, or reviews of the listed business on the website are correct and free of any errors.

All businesses that are registered on Seek A Biz are held entirely accountable for the relevancy and accuracy of the data that is found on their listing page.

The ratings and reviews of businesses on the website that are submitted by users do not reflect the views of Seek A Biz.

Seek A Biz does not guarantee the correctness of the content or outside websites which are linked to from business listings.

Seek A Biz is not liable for any of the businesses listed on the site.

Businesses are able to list,  their own business profile details for the intention of highlighting their products and services. In some situations, users are able to follow direct links to the business’s website.

Seek A Biz states that it is not an agent of the businesses that have been listed on the site, does not express or guarantee for or grant any warranties in connection to any businesses, products, or services. Neither will Seek A Biz nor any of its agents will be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury of any nature resulting from any of the listed businesses.

The website will not be held responsible for any purchases or services acquired from businesses listed on the platform. The businesses listed on the website are liable for payments, refunds, returns and quality of service. The business is also responsible for sustaining the legitimacy of their enterprise, as well as products and their website.

Users of Seek A Biz acknowledge that they take full accountability for assessing the price, product, or service quality and its credibility. The website does not guarantee that any business transactions that result from listings on the site will act in good faith.

Seek A Biz works diligently to assure that the information presented on the website correlating to businesses and their products or services are up-to-date, correct, and within the law.  If you believe that a business might be selling goods that are regarded to be illegal, conducting dishonest or fraudulent activity or using misleading marketing and information, please notify Seek A Biz promptly so that we can take the correct and suitable actions.

Website Usage Disclaimer

Seek A Biz does not make any guarantees of any kind whatsoever in connection to the website and/or services presented including any warranty that the website or website server is virus-free and does not contain malicious elements. It also does not state that the functions, content, and technology obtainable from the website are uninterrupted and/or are void of errors. Seek A Biz is capable of suspending access to the website without any prior notice at any moment and accepts no accountability for any consequences thereof.

The data, ideas, or views represented on the Seek A Biz website are not to be considered as specialist guidance or the opinion of the company’s agents. We encourage users to seek professional guidance prior to exercising any action linked to the information, ideas, or opinions on the website.

All risk and/or liability incurred from the use of the website rests with the user and not with Seek A Biz, its representatives nor any of its agents. We cannot be held accountable for any damages or losses that occur from making use of this website, the services, or the content presented within, including harm to computers. All malfunctions, bugs and defects can be communicated to us directly.

Under no conditions is Seek A Biz held responsible for any indirect damages, special damages, consequential damages, or loss of profits and/or data.

Intellectual Property Rights 

All of the data, content and trademarks on this website, including but not limited to software, databases, plain text, graphics, links, confidential data, designs and agreements are the property of and are licensed to Seek A Biz and are thus protected from copyright infringement by both local and international legislation.

Seek A Biz, the website, may hold images, names, or other content that can be seen as trademarks, logos, or copyrighted material of third parties. These may not be borrowed, copied or used without their strict permission. To obtain consent, please feel free to contact the third party directly.

Content & Minors 

Seek A Biz does not accept accountability for inaccurate, unlawful, slanderous, or offensive content and/or images. You are, however, encouraged to notify us of this content so that we can correct the situation.

Hyperlinks that lead form this website or external website are provided as-is, and Seek A Biz does not necessarily agree with, endorse or sponsor the content on these webpages.

This is not an adult website and, as such, there is no explicit age limit that has been set on our users. Nevertheless, some businesses listed on Seek A Biz might choose to promote the content of an adult nature. Goods and services may only be purchased by persons who are above the age of 18 and consequently Seek A Biz will not be held accountable in any way regarding minors who might be observing content that could be adult in nature or purchasing related products or services.

Users that are under the age of 18 may not list a business profile or make use of the added services nor can they register an account.

Security 

Any person, company, or organisation attempting to incorporate or insert any damaging code to this website, or tries to gain unlawful access to any page on this site will be prosecuted and civil losses shall be claimed should Seek A Biz suffer any losses or damages.

You will also allow Seek A Biz to take all feasible and legal measures to ensure the security and integrity of the website and its application, including its staff and agents.

Prohibited conduct 

Concerning links, framing, crawlers and spiders: no company, individual, or website may link to any pages on this website or make use of any tools or technology whatsoever, to gain any data from this website without agreeing to the terms and conditions, and without explicit written consent from Seek A Biz itself. This forbids robots, crawlers, spiders, and any additional website exploration or retrieval means from scraping and recording the site and all of its data, and reformatting and framing (iframe) any of the website pages in any way.

General usage 

Users consent to use of this website in accordance with the user agreement and all relevant legislation and regulations. Users also acknowledge and accept that they will not engage in any of the subsequent forbidden behaviours when using this website:

  • Submitting untruthful, inaccurate, or misleading information on this website or handling business in a deceptive, inaccurate, and misleading way
  • Handling unlawful or fraudulent actions or endeavouring criminal or dishonest services
  • Endeavouring to produce or producing any damaging code to this website
  • Endeavouring to gain illegal entry to any page on this website whatsoever
  • Tampering with, attempting to hack, modify or otherwise corrupt the functionality, security, and integrity of Seek A Biz
  • Submitting content that is recognised as “spam”, including chain letters, junk mail, pyramid schemes, surveys, and any additional bulk messaging whether commercial or not
  • Submitting pictures that have been taken from other origins without being attributed.. If Seek A Biz is alerted to the fact that a user or business has posted a stolen image, the user or business will be responsible for the costs incurred for legal action.
  • Utilizing keyword stuffing within the content or contrarily endeavouring to manipulate search results
  • Promoting any form of discrimination
  • Intimidating, stalking, swindling, provoking, harassing, or supporting for these actions in relation to any other individual or enterprise and otherwise conflicting with another individual’s use of Seek A Biz
  • Drafting or promoting abusive content, producing content that is deliberately inaccurate, and illegally intimidating and harassing users and other companies
  • Submitting any content that includes obscenity, adult, or unlawful data
  • Endeavouring to collect private information from minors or intimidating to inflict harm to underaged individuals
  • Endeavouring to or successfully violating any third-party-right including infringement of confidence, copyright, trademark, patent, or privacy right including any other intellectual assets or exclusive right
  • Adapting, changing, appropriating, copying, distributing, interpreting, and producing plagiarised works or modifications of other business’s information including openly promoting, trading, dealing or in any way misusing the website or its data except when given authorisation by Seek A Biz
  • Attempting to or successfully deleting any copyright, trademark, brand or other exclusive rights notices on the website or on any elements printed or replicated off of the website
  • Mining or processing data about another user or company submitted on this website
  • Endeavouring to access, recover, or index this website in order to assemble a searchable index or database of listings, surveys or data.
  • Attempting to take any action which may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the technological infrastructure of Seek A Biz
  • Gaining or attempting to gain unlawful access to the Seek A Biz website, its network intermediaries, or computer methods using hacking, password mining or any other unlawful means
  • Utilizing this website or its content to spread computer viruses, bugs, worms, trojans, or any other malicious computer code that might influence regular programming  or be harmful in any way as well as meddling with private information, disrupting site usages, systems, and processes
  • Changing the correct operation of this website by utilising tools, software, codes, or any type of exploitation
  • Making excessive demands for traffic
  • Endeavouring to or successfully eliminating, bypassing, impairing, or otherwise meddling with any security-related characteristics of the website including those that inhibit or limit the duplicating of website data or features that support restrictions on the use of the website
  • Taking any actions that might render Seek A Biz liable to anyone or cause Seek A Biz to lose in whole or in part the services or any ISP, supplier or third party.

Using the website is an acknowledgement that any misuse or damage of Seek A Biz website violates the aforementioned provisions. Seek A Biz may incur liability and/or suffer from damages and, as such,  your access to the website will be subject to restriction, suspension or prompt cancellation.

You will also be subject to damages and other similar penalties, including criminal prosecution where applicable, and you will be held liable for any and all damages that Seek A Biz should undergo. This includes any legal fees on an attorney and own client scale and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you will be required to reimburse Seek A Biz any and all costs, expenses and fines levied as a result of your activities.

Terms and termination 

This user agreement will initiate from the date on which it is published on Seek A Biz and will remain continually, being altered by Seek A Biz as and when it is required for the complete term of the operational use of the website. Seek A Biz has the right to terminate this user agreement and the website at any time.

Changes to the user agreement

Seek A Biz may in its sole discretion, change the user agreement or any part therein contained with or without notice to users. It is the duty of website users to determine whether the agreement has been revised in order to guarantee that they are content with the modifications performed. If you are not content with this user agreement, you may abstain from use of this website whether as a company lister or browser.

Governing law and jurisdiction 

The website of Seek A Biz, including its terms and conditions, as well as any disputes arising from the terms and conditions, will be governed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Your maintained use of this website establishes your permission and resignation to the jurisdiction of the South African courts, concerning all proceedings, actions, applications or the link established by either party or third parties resulting from any of these terms and conditions.

Disputes 

Seek A Biz will not be involved in any disputes which arise between users and any of the listed businesses. We are not an advocate of any users or companies and will not act in any such position in conjunction with settling any conflicts between parties.

Communication

When visiting or interacting with the website or sending emails to Seek A Biz, you consent to receive communications from Seek A Biz electronically. You thus agree to all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications sent by Seek A Biz, including but not limited to, the requirement that such communications should be in writing.

If you have any further questions regarding Seek A Biz’s Terms And Conditions, send us a message.