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Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions for National Business Initiative

Last modified: 9 November 2022

In these terms and conditions, “we” “us” and “our” refers to National Business Initiative (‘NBI’). Your access to and use of all information on this website and/or any cloud-based/native applications including use of our service/s is provided subject to the following terms and conditions. The information is intended for residents of South Africa only.

We reserve the right to amend this Notice at any time and your use of the website following any amendments will represent your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions as amended. We therefore recommend that each time you access our website you read these terms and conditions.

Site Access:

  • When you visit our website, we give you a limited license to access and use our information for personal use.
  • You are permitted to download a copy of the information on this website to your computer for your personal use only if you do not delete or change any copyright symbol, trademark or other proprietary notice. Your use of our content in any other way infringes our intellectual property rights.
  • Except as permitted under the Copyright Act 1978, you are not permitted to copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, or display any of the information on this website without our prior written permission.
  • The license to access and use the information on our website does not include the right to use any data mining robots or other extraction tools. The license also does not permit you to metatag or mirror our website without our prior written permission. We reserve the right to serve you with notice if we become aware of your metatag or mirroring of our website.

Hyperlinks:

  • This website may from time to time contain hyperlinks to other websites. Such links are provided for convenience only and we take no responsibility for the content and maintenance of or privacy compliance by any linked website. Any hyperlink on our website to another website does not imply our endorsement, support, or sponsorship of the operator of that website nor of the information and/or products which they provide.
  • You may link our website only with our consent. Any such linking will be entirely your responsibility and at your expense. By linking, you must not alter any of our website's contents including any intellectual property notices and you must not frame or reformat any of our pages, files, images, text, or other materials.

Intellectual Property Rights:

  • The copyright to all content on this website including applets, graphics, images, layouts, and text belongs to us or we have a license to use those materials.
  • All trademarks, brands and logos generally identified either with the symbols TM or ® which are used on this website are either owned by us or we have a license to use them. Your access to our website does not license you to use those marks in any commercial way without our prior written permission.
  • Any comment, feedback, idea, or suggestion (called “Comments”) which you provide to us through this website becomes our property. If in future we use your Comments in promoting our website or in any other way, we will not be liable for any similarities which may appear from such use. Furthermore, you agree that we are entitled to use your Comments for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without compensation to you or to any other person who has transmitted your Comments.
  • If you provide us with Comments, you acknowledge that you are responsible for the content of such material including its legality, originality, and copyright.

Disclaimers:

  • Whilst we take all due care in providing our services, we do not provide any warranty either express or implied including without limitation warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
  • To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms and conditions is excluded.
  • We also take all due care in ensuring that our website is free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse and/or malware, however we are not responsible for any damage to your computer system which arises in connection with your use of our website or any linked website.

Limitation of Liability:

  • To the full extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of an implied warranty or condition is limited to the supply of the services again or payment of the costs of having those services supplied again.
  • We accept no liability for any loss whatsoever including consequential loss suffered by you arising from services we have supplied.

Indemnity:

By accessing our website, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, actions, damages, costs, and expenses including legal fees arising from or in connection with your use of our website.

Agreement to Arbitrate:

This section applies to any dispute except it doesn’t include a dispute relating to claims for injunctive or equitable relief regarding the enforcement or validity of your or https://www.nbi.org.za/.’s" intellectual property rights. The term “dispute” means any dispute, action, or other controversy between you and https://www.nbi.org.za/ concerning the services or this agreement, whether in contract, warranty, tort, statute, regulation, ordinance, or any other legal or equitable basis. “Dispute” will be given the broadest possible meaning allowable under law.

Notice of Dispute:

In the event of a dispute, you or https://www.nbi.org.za/ must give the other a Notice of Dispute, which is a written statement that sets forth the name, address, and contact information of the party giving it, the facts giving rise to the dispute, and the relief requested. You must send any Notice of Dispute via email to: info@nbi.org.za. https://www.nbi.org.za/ will send any Notice of Dispute to you by mail to your address if we have it, or otherwise to your email address. You and https://www.nbi.org.za/ will attempt to resolve any dispute through informal negotiation within sixty (60) days from the date the Notice of Dispute is sent. After sixty (60) days, you or https://www.nbi.org.za/ may commence arbitration.

Jurisdiction:

  • These terms and conditions are to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Gauteng and any claim made by either party against the other which in any way arises out of these terms and conditions will be heard in Gauteng and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of those courts.
  • If any provision in these terms and conditions is invalid under any law the provision will be limited, narrowed, construed, or altered as necessary to render it valid but only to the extent necessary to achieve such validity. If necessary, the invalid provision will be deleted from these terms and conditions and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

Privacy:

  • We undertake to take all due care with any information which you may provide to us when accessing our website. However, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you may provide to us. Information you transmit to us is entirely at your own risk although we undertake to take reasonable steps to preserve such information in a secure manner.
  • Our compliance with privacy legislation is set out in our separate Privacy Policy which may be accessed from our home page.

Contact Us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

National Business Initiative

  1. Website: www.nbi.org.za
  2. Email: info@nbi.org.za
  3. Phone: +27 (11) 544 6000
  4. Address: 5th Floor, 61 Katherine Street, Dennehof, Sandton, 2196, South Africa
  5. Postal Address: PO Box 294, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa