WEBSITE TERMS OF USE, DISCLAIMER AND COPYRIGHT

TERMS OF USE:

The Actuarial Society of South Africa (“ASSA”, “We”, us”) grants the user (“you”) a limited license to access and make personal use of the www.actuarialsociety.org) website (“hereinafter the “Website”). You are not allowed to modify (other than page caching) the Website or any portion thereof without our prior written consent.

This license does not permit any resale or commercial use of the Website or its contents; any collection and use of any material whatsoever; any derivative use of the Website or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another person; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

The Website or any portion thereof may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our prior written consent.

You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of the Website without our prior written consent.

You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing the name of the Website name or trademarks associated with the Website without our prior written consent.  Any unauthorized use allows us to terminate the permission or license granted to you.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Website so long as the link does not portray us in an offensive matter. You may not use any of the ASSA logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark owned by ASSA, as part of the link without prior written permission of the owner of the graphic or trademark.

The Website may provide links to other websites. ASSA is not responsible for evaluating the content or offerings made on these websites. We do not endorse or warrant the offerings of any of the businesses or individuals, nor are we responsible for the content of the websites to which links may be provided, or that of any third party websites, which may be accessed through these linked websites. No liability will be attributed to us for any dealings with any other websites accessed through links provided by the Website and you are solely responsible for assessing the terms and conditions and privacy provisions of any of these websites.

You may not post, transmit and/or upload any content to the Website or to an online platform made available to you thought the Website, unless explicit permission is granted thereto.

Any content added to any of ASSA’s online platforms, whether added to private or public repositories, are deemed by ASSA to be in contravention of these terms of use and may be removed at ASSA’s sole discretion.

DISCLAIMER:

The information is provided by ASSA, and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, material, data, tables and/ or related graphics contained on the website or any linked sites, for any purpose whatsoever. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE, OR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACCESS OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ANY CONTENT THEREIN. THE USER ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT THE WEBSITE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES, SPYWARE, MALWARE, DESTRUCTIVE MATERIALS OR ANY OTHER DATA OR CODE WHICH IS ABLE TO CORRUPT, DESTROY, COMPROMISE, DISRUPT, DISABLE, HARM, OR OTHERWISE IMPEDE IN ANY MANNER THE OPERATION, STABILITY, SECURITY FUNCTIONALITY OR CONTENT OF YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER NETWORK, HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY. YOU ACCEPT ALL RISK ASSOCIATED AND MENTIONED AFORESAID AND ASSA, ITS DIRECTORS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OR LIABILITY OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND/OR THE CONTENTS. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE AND ADEQUATE PRECAUTIONS TO ENSURE THAT WHATEVER IS SELECTED FROM THIS WEBSITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER CONTAMINATION THAT MAY INTERFERE WITH OR DAMAGE THE USER’S COMPUTER SYSTEM, SOFTWARE OR DATA.

Through this Website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of ASSA. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

ASSA applies a range of security controls to protect its Website from unauthorised access. However, users should be aware that the World Wide Web is an insecure public network that gives rise to a potential risk that a user’s transactions are being viewed, intercepted or modified by third parties or that files which the user downloads may contain computer viruses, disabling codes, worms or other devices or defects. ASSA further takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.

All information on the Website is subject to change without notice. However, publications will be posted on the Website as close to embargo time as possible on the day of their release.

COPYRIGHT:

This Website and its content and/or any products are copyright of ASSA© All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents and/or products in any form is prohibited other than the following:

• you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only; and
• you may apply the information as you wish, provided that you acknowledge ASSA as the source of the basic data wherever you process, apply, utilise, publish or distribute the data, and also that you specify that the relevant application and analysis (where applicable) result from your own processing of the data.

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.