Website Terms & Conditions
1. WELCOME TO OUR WEBSITE
This Website can be accessed at https://maxipak.co.za, related mobi-sites and software applications (the “Website”) and is owned and operated by Maxipak Suppliers Close Corporation (Registration Number:2007/242549/23) (“the Corporation”, “we”, “us” and “our”).
2. NOTICE
2.1 These Website Terms and Conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) govern the use of the Website.
2.2 These Terms and Conditions are binding and enforceable against every person that accesses or uses this Website (“you”, “your” or “user”), including without limitation each user who registers as contemplated below (“registered user”). By using the Website and by clicking on the “Accept” button on the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
2.3 You must not use this Website if you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions. the Corporation reserves the right to prevent your usage of this Website if you misuse the contents contained within this Website in any manner. The Corporation is the final arbiter as to what shall constitute misuse and its decision will be final.
2.4 We reserve the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice.
3. CONTACTING US
3.1 The Corporation is registered in South Africa as a close corporation with limited liability
and its registered office and details are as follows:
Physical Address
Gate 8
19 Aitken Road
Sebenza
Johannesburg
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1609
Postal Address
PO Box 9838
Edenglen
Gauteng
1613
Republic of South Africa
3.2 For the purposes of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (Act no. 25 of
2002) (“ECT Act”), the Corporation’s information is as follows, which should be read in
conjunction with its product descriptions and other terms and conditions contained on the
Website:
3.2.1 Full name: Maxipak Suppliers Close Corporation, with registration number:
2007/242549/23;
3.2.2 Main business: The production of plastic protection items and leatherette fender
covers for the automotive industry, aprons and capes for the salon industry, fabric
clots for use in hygiene and cleaning services, together with plastic aprons, deli gloves
and mop caps.
3.2.3 Physical address for receipt of legal service: Gate 8, Aitken Road, Sebenza,
Johannesburg, 1609;
3.2.4 Member: Maryna Joanne Duke;
3.2.5 Phone number: +2781 572 9702;
3.2.6 Official email address: maryna@maxipak.co.za;
3.2.7 PAIA: The manual published in terms of Section 51 of the Promotion of Access to
Information Act (Act no. 2 of 2000), incorporating the provisions of the Protection of
Personal Information Act (Act no. 4 of 2013) may be downloaded here.
3.3 You can get in touch with us:
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3.3.1 via the contact section of this Website;
3.3.2 by mail or email at the addresses specified above;
3.3.3 by telephone during normal office hours (Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm excluding
public holidays in the Republic of South Africa) on our number listed above (your call
may be recorded).
4. ACCURACY AND AVAILABILITY
4.1 Whilst we always do our very best to ensure the information shown on the Website is
accurate and up to date, we give no warranty or undertaking as to the quality, or freedom
from error, of the contents of this Website. We expressly exclude liability for any such
inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
4.2 We will use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of the Website, except
during scheduled maintenance periods, and are entitled to discontinue providing the
Website or any part thereof with or without notice to you.
4.3 The Corporation may in its sole discretion terminate, suspend and modify this Website,
with or without notice to you. You agree that the Corporation will not be liable to you in
the event that it chooses to suspend, modify or terminate this Website other than for
processing any orders made by you prior to such time, to the extent possible.
4.4 If you fail to comply with your obligations under these Terms and Conditions, this may (in
our sole discretion with or without notice to you) lead to a suspension and/or termination
of your access to the Website without any prejudice to any claims for damages or
otherwise that we may have against you.
4.5 The Corporation is entitled, for purposes of preventing suspected fraud and/or where it
suspects that you are abusing the Website and/or have created multiple user profiles to
engage in any unlawful activity, to blacklist you on its database (including suspending or
terminating your access to the Website), refuse to accept or process payment of any
products, on notice to you. The Corporation shall only be liable to refund monies already
paid by you and accepts no other liability which may arise as a result of such blacklisting
and/or refusal.
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4.6 At any time, you can choose to stop using the Website, with or without notice to the
Corporation.
5. USE OF THE WEBSITE
5.1 It is possible to view our Website without providing any personal information as defined in
the Protection of Personal Information Act (“Personal Information”). However, if you use
the “Contact Us” button, you will be required to provide certain Personal Information. By
completing and submitting a “Contact Us” request on the Website, you are expressly
permitting the Corporation to collect, collate, process and use your Personal Information
for the purpose it was provided, as well as to disclose it to our service providers (if any)
and only if selected by you.
5.2 We also collect demographic and profile data on our Website. This may be combined with
other forms of information to permit us to bring together, in aggregate form, information
about the people who use our Website. Such information will enable us to understand, in
general terms, user preferences in relation to the content of the Website and the
effectiveness of the advertising.
5.3 The Corporation will not share, sell or loan any identifiable information about you to any
third party without your express consent. We may share generalised information about
site visitor patterns with partners or other parties in such a way that individual visitors can
never be identified.
5.4 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure
and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to or from our Website. Once
we receive your information, we will use strict procedures and security measures to
protect your information and to prevent unauthorised access to it.
5.5 The Corporation is the “data controller” for purpose of the ECT Act.
5.6 The Corporation will store your Personal Information in a secure hosting facility in the
Republic of South Africa, but off-site from our corporate head office. The Corporation will
store your Personal Information only for the purpose for which it was collected as well as a
record of any third party to whom the Personal Information was disclosed, the reason for
disclosure and the date of the disclosure, for the duration that your information is used
and for a period of 1 (One) year thereafter as required by Section 51(5) and (7) of the ECT
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Act. After the 1 (One) year period as aforesaid, the Corporation will delete or destroy (as
applicable) all your Personal Information that is stored that has become obsolete.
5.7 You may request details of Personal Information that we hold about you by requesting the
Corporation in writing to furnish you with such information. Our security procedures mean
that we may request proof of identity in providing you with these details, dependent on
the Personal Information that you request. We will notify you of this after we have
received your request. If you wish to submit a written request as outlined above then
please contact us using the contact particulars below. If all reasonable steps have been
taken to find a record as requested and there are reasonable grounds for believing that
the record is in the Corporation’s possession, but cannot be found, or does not exist, the
head of the Corporation will by way of affirmation notify you that it is not possible to give
access to that record.
5.8 Your email address is only used for the purposes of replying to you unless you have given
consent as detailed above.
5.9 Whenever you browse our Website, read pages, or download information, our computers
automatically record certain information about your visit from the computer you use to
access our Website. This information does not identify you personally. It just tells us how
many visitors come to our Website and the types of computers they use. With this
information, we can improve our Website for all our visitors and make it more useful to
you. The information includes the following:
5.9.1 the date and time you access our Website;
5.9.2 how many and which pages you visit during a 'session' on our Website and how long
you were on the Website;
5.9.3 your Internet domain name (this might be your internet service provider such as
aol.com or your place of work) and the 'IP' address (this is a number assigned to your
computer whenever you are surfing the web) which allows you to access our
Website;
5.9.4 the Internet browser you use (e.g. Microsoft Explorer or Netscape) and your
computer's operating system (e.g. Windows 10);
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5.9.5 the site you were on before you linked to our Website (e.g. Yahoo if you found us
from a search engine).
6. COOKIE POLICY
6.1 WHAT IS A COOKIE?
6.1.1 A cookie is a text-only string of information that a Website transfers to the cookie file
of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the Website can remember who
you are.
6.1.2 Cookies can help a Website to arrange content to match your preferred interests
more quickly – most major Websites use cookies. Cookies alone cannot be used to
identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the
cookie has come; the "lifetime" of the cookie; and a value, usually a randomly
generated unique number.
6.2 TWO TYPES OF COOKIES ARE USED ON OUR WEBSITE:
6.2.1 Session Cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your
browser until you leave the site.
6.2.2 Persistent Cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer
(though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie, how cookies are
used on this site and what information is collected).
6.2.3 Session Cookies are used:
6.2.3.1 To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to
re-enter information.
6.2.3.2 Within registration to allow you to access stored information.
6.2.4 Persistent Cookies are used:
6.2.4.1 To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (using a number, you cannot be
identified personally) when you return to our Website.
6.2.4.2 To allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred
interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
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6.2.4.3 To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how
users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our Website. We
cannot identify you personally in this way.
6.3 Google AdWords
6.3.1 The Corporation also tracks cookies by way of Google AdWords remarketing features
that track such cookies.
6.3.2 By visiting the Corporation’s Website, you agree that certain of our Google AdWords
remarketing or other advertisements can follow you as you visit other Websites that
are part of Google’s Display Network (GDN).
6.3.3 We shall not share with third parties or utilise any Personal Information as obtained
in our Google AdWords remarketing campaign in any other marketing initiatives.
6.3.4 You may opt out of seeing advertisements for this Website by clicking here:
http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads.
6.4 THIRD PARTY COOKIES
6.4.1 Third parties serve cookies via this Website. These are used for the following
purposes:
6.4.1.1 to serve advertisements on our Website and track whether these
advertisements are clicked on by users;
6.4.1.2 to control how often you are shown a particular advertisement;
6.4.1.3 to tailor content to your preferences;
6.4.1.4 to count the number of anonymous users of our Website;
6.4.1.5 to provide security within shopping baskets or transactions.
6.5 WEB BEACONS
6.5.1 Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as Web Beacons
(sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these
pages.
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6.5.2 Web Beacons collect only limited information which includes a cookie number; time
and date of a page view; and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon
resides.
6.5.3 We may also carry Web Beacons placed by third party advertisers. These Beacons do
not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the
effectiveness of a particular campaign.
6.6 DISABLING AND ENABLING COOKIES
6.6.1 You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your
browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our
Website if cookies are disabled.
6.6.2 Should you wish to be alerted before a cookie is accepted on your hard disk, you can
follow the guideline instructions below:
6.6.3 If you are using Netscape Navigator 3.0:
6.6.3.1 Go to the 'Options' menu
6.6.3.2 Click 'Network Preferences'
6.6.3.3 Click 'Protocols'
6.6.3.4 Tick the box that says 'Show an alert before accepting a cookie'
6.6.3.5 Go into your Netscape folder
6.6.3.6 Delete the file that is called 'cookies.txt', this will delete all the cookies
6.6.3.7 Under Windows 95, you should also use the 'Find' feature on the 'Start' menu to
simply find the file called 'cookies.txt.'
6.6.4 If you are using Internet Explorer 3.0:
6.6.4.1 Go to the 'View' menu
6.6.4.2 Click 'Options'
6.6.4.3 Click 'Advanced'
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6.6.4.4 Tick the box that says 'Warn before accepting cookies'
6.6.4.5 Go to cookies directory * Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all
cookies
6.6.4.6 Once you delete these files you will have no more cookies, and you will be
prompted each time a Website attempts to send a cookie to your system. At
that time, you can choose to either 'Accept' or 'Cancel' a cookie
6.6.5 If you are using Netscape 4.0+:
6.6.5.1 Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar
6.6.5.2 Click on 'Preferences'
6.6.5.3 Click on 'Advanced'
6.6.5.4 Tick the box that says 'Warn me before accepting a cookie'
6.6.5.5 Now go to your 'Start' button
6.6.5.6 Click on 'Find'
6.6.5.7 Click on 'Files and Folders'
6.6.5.8 Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears
6.6.5.9 Click 'Find Now'
6.6.5.10 When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will
delete all cookies
6.6.5.11 Now shut down and restart Netscape
6.6.5.12 Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies, and you will be
prompted each time a Website attempts to send a cookie to your system. At
that time, you can choose to either 'Accept' or 'Cancel' the cookie
6.6.6 If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0+:
6.6.6.1 Go to the 'Tools' menu
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6.6.6.2 Click on 'Internet Options'
6.6.6.3 Click the 'Security' tab
6.6.6.4 Highlight the 'Internet' zone (selected by default)
6.6.6.5 Select security level 'High' for this zone
6.6.6.6 Click on 'OK'
6.6.6.7 Go into your cookies directory
6.6.6.8 Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all cookies
6.6.6.9 Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser
will no longer send or receive new cookies.
6.6.7 If you are using Netscape 6.0+:
6.6.7.1 Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar
6.6.7.2 Click on 'Preferences'
6.6.7.3 Select the 'Cookies' field
6.6.7.4 Before Accepting a Cookie' or 'Disable Cookies'
6.6.7.5 Click on 'OK'
6.6.7.6 Go to your 'Start' button
6.6.7.7 Click on 'Files and Folders'
6.6.7.8 Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears
6.6.7.9 Click 'Find Now'
6.6.7.10 When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will
delete all cookies
6.6.7.11 Now shut down and restart Netscape
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6.6.7.12 Depending on your earlier choice you will either be prompted by new cookies or
no cookies will be set or received
6.6.8 If you are using Internet Explorer 6.0+:
6.6.8.1 Go to the 'Tools' menu
6.6.8.2 Click on 'Internet Options'
6.6.8.3 Click the 'Privacy' tab
6.6.8.4 Move the slider to choose your preferred settings
6.6.8.5 Click on 'OK'
6.6.8.6 Go into your cookies directory
6.6.8.7 Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all cookies
6.6.8.8 Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser
will no longer send or receive new cookies
6.6.9 If you are using Netscape 7.0+:
6.6.9.1 Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar
6.6.9.2 Click on 'Preferences'
6.6.9.3 Click on ' Privacy & Security'
6.6.9.4 Select the 'Cookies' field
6.6.9.5 Choose your preferred settings
6.6.9.6 Go to your 'Start' button
6.6.9.7 Click on 'Find'
6.6.9.8 Click on 'Files and Folders'
6.6.9.9 Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears
6.6.9.10 Click 'Find Now'
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6.6.9.11 When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will
delete all cookies Now shut down and restart Netscape
6.6.9.12 Depending on your earlier choice you will either be prompted by new cookies or
no cookies will be set or received
6.7 DELETING COOKIES
You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your
browser. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:
6.7.1 Open 'Windows Explorer'
6.7.2 Click on the 'Search' button on the tool bar
6.7.3 Type "cookie" into the search box for 'Folders and Files'
6.7.4 Select 'My Computer' in the 'Look In' box
6.7.5 Click 'Search Now' * Double click on the folders that are found
6.7.6 'Select' any cookie file
6.7.7 Hit the 'Delete' button on your keyboard
6.7.8 If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select "cookies" in
the "Help" function for information on where to find your cookie folder.
7. DATA PROTECTION ON PIXEL TAGS
7.1 We may use "pixel tags," which are small graphic files that allow us to monitor the use of
our Websites.
7.2 A pixel tag can collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the
computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL (Uniform
Resource Locator) of the page on which the pixel tag appears; the time the page
containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that fetched the pixel tag; and
the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server.
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7.3 When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, we may use "format sensing"
technology, which allows pixel tags to let us know whether you received and opened our
e-mail.
8. JURISDICTION AND LAW
8.1 This Website is intended for the use of our Clients in the Republic of South Africa only. It
was created and is operated according to the laws of the Republic of South Africa.
8.2 These terms and our relationship and/or any dispute arising from or in connection with
these terms will be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic
of South Africa. Your continued use of the Website will constitute your consent and
submission to the jurisdiction of the South African courts regarding all proceedings,
transactions, applications or the like instituted by either party against the other, arising
from any of these terms.
8.3 Nothing within these terms is intended to, nor will it, limit your right to approach any
court, tribunal or forum of competent jurisdiction in terms of the Consumer Protection
Act.
9. CHANGES TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
9.1 The Corporation may, in its sole discretion, change any of these Website Terms and
Conditions at any time. It is your responsibility to regularly check these Terms and
Conditions and make sure that you are satisfied with the changes. Should you not be
satisfied, you must not in any way continue to use the Website.
9.2 Any such change will only apply to your use of this Website after the change is displayed
on the Website. If you use the Website after such amended Terms and Conditions have
been displayed on the Website, you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.
10. UNDERTAKINGS
10.1 You are permitted to browse this Website and we also encourage you to download and
share elements with your friends and family for personal and information use. However,
you are not allowed to reproduce extracts by way of printing, downloading or by
distribution to other people for business use, or create any hyperlink or other similar form
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of connection to this Website without our express written permission. The use of this
Website within any other Website by the use of framing or otherwise is strictly prohibited.
10.2 You agree that you will not in any way use any device, software or other instrument to
interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website. In addition, you
agree that you will not in any way use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or
manual process to monitor, copy, distribute or modify the Website or the information
contained herein, without the prior written consent from an authorised the Corporation
representative (such consent is deemed given for standard search engine technology
employed by Internet search Websites to direct Internet users to this Website).
11. COPYRIGHT
11.1 The contents of the Website, including any material, information, data, software, icons,
text, graphics, lay-outs, images, sound clips, advertisements, video clips, trade names,
logos, trade-marks, designs and service marks which are displayed on or incorporated in
this Website (“Website Content”) are protected by law, including but not limited to
copyright and trade mark law. The Website Content is the property of the Corporation, its
advertisers and/or sponsors and/or is licensed to the Corporation.
11.2 You will not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the Website or the Website Content.
11.3 Any use, distribution or reproduction of the Website Content is prohibited unless
expressly authorised in terms of these Terms and Conditions or otherwise provided for in
law.
11.4 Where any of the Website Content has been licensed to us or belongs to any third party,
your rights of use will also be subject to any terms and conditions which that licensor or
third party imposes from time to time and you agree to comply with such third party
terms and conditions.
12. DISCLAIMER
12.1 The use of the Website is entirely at your own risk and you assume full responsibility for
any risk or loss resulting from use of the Website or reliance on any information on the
Website.
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12.2 Whilst the Corporation takes reasonable measures to ensure that the content of the
Website is accurate and complete, the Corporation makes no representations or
warranties, whether express or implied, as to the quality, timeliness, operation, integrity,
availability or functionality of the Website or as to the accuracy, completeness or
reliability of any information on the Website. If any such representations or warranties are
made by the Corporation’s representatives, the Corporation shall not be bound thereby.
12.3 The Website itself and all information provided on the Website is provided “as is” without
warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, completeness, or non-
infringement, as may be allowed in law.
12.4 Any views or statements made or expressed on the Website are not necessarily the views
of the Corporation, its directors, employees and/or agents.