Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions are the contract between you and Platinum Century Property Ltd. (“us”, “we”, etc). By visiting or using Our Website, or signing up for our Services, you agree to be bound by them.

We are Platinum Century Propertya company registered in South Africa company number 2014/160904/07

Our address is Unit G1 Century Gate Corner Summer Greens & Century City Dr, Century City, Cape Town, 7441, South Africa.

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You are: Anyone who uses Our Website or buys any service from us.

These terms are the contract between us. If you do not agree with any part, you should leave Our Website immediately.

These are the agreed terms:

1.           Definitions

2.           Basis of Contract

2.1.       Our Website is a show place for property buyers to find properties listed by our agents in cooperation with our clients (property sellers/owners). In addition we provide certain services as described on Our Website.For the buyer, these are information services. We try to keep our website up-to-date. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee that all information on our website are correct. Real estate prices can change faster than we can adjust them on our website. Therefore, the property prices on our website are not binding prices. This applies to our exchange rate calculator, too.

2.2.       We provide a show place for the sale or letting of Property.

We may change this agreement in any way at any time. The version applicable to your contract is the version which was Posted on Our Website at the time that the contract was made.

3.           Your account and personal information

3.1.       When you visit Our Website, you accept responsibility for any action done by any person using your name, account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner.

3.2.       You agree that you have provided accurate, up to date, and complete information about yourself. We are not responsible for any error made as a result of such information being inaccurate.

3.3.       You agree to notify us of any changes in your information immediately it occurs. If you do not do so, we may terminate your account.

4.           How we handle your data

4.1.       Our privacy policy is strong and precise. It complies fully with the current privacy law which is at https://platinumcenprop.co.za/privacypolice

4.2.       If you Post a Contribution to any public area of Our Website it becomes available in the public domain. We have no control who sees it or what anyone does with it.

4.3.       Property Postings and other restricted information are also available in the public domain. It is important that material you Post is accurate and complete, but you should avoid Posting unnecessary confidential information.

4.4.       We need the freedom to be able to publicise our Services and your own use of them. You therefore now irrevocably grant us the right and licence to edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use any Contribution that you place on Our Website, in the public domain and in any medium. You represent and warrant that you are authorised to grant all such rights.

4.5.       We will use that licence only for commercial purposes of the business of Our Website and will stop using it after a commercially reasonable period of time.

4.6.       Posting a Contribution does not change your ownership of the copyright in it. We have no claim over it and we will not protect your rights for you.

4.7.       You understand that you are personally responsible for your breach of intellectual property rights, defamation, or any law, which may occur as a result of any Contribution having been Posted by you.

4.8.       You accept all risk and responsibility for determining whether any Contribution is in the public domain and not confidential.

4.9.       Please notify us of any security breach or unauthorised use of your account.

4.10.     We do not solicit ideas or text for improvement of our Service, but if you do send to us material of any sort, you are deemed to have granted to us a licence to use it in the terms set out at sub paragraph five / number above.

5.           Restrictions on what you may Post to Our Website

We invite you to Contribute Content to Our Website in several ways and for different purposes. We have to regulate your use of Our Website to protect our business and our staff, to protect other users of Our Website and to comply with the law. These provisions apply to all users of Our Website.

We do not undertake to moderate or check every item Posted, but we do protect our business vigorously. If we believe Content Posted breaches the law, we shall co-operate fully with the law enforcement authorities in whatever ways we can.

You agree that you will not use or allow anyone else to use Our Website to Post a Contribution, upload Content or undertake any activity which is or may:

5.1.       be unlawful, or tend to incite another person to commit a crime;

5.2.       consist in commercial audio, video or music files;

5.3.       be obscene, offensive, threatening, violent, malicious or defamatory;

5.4.       be sexually explicit or pornographic;

5.5.       use a Posting to solicit responses from property buyers other than in the terms proposed by this agreement;

5.6.       include anything other than words (i.e. you will not include any symbols or photographs);

5.7.       link to any of the material specified in this paragraph;

5.8.       use distribution lists that include people who have not given specific permission to be included in such distribution process;

5.9.       send age-inappropriate communications or Content to anyone under the age of 18.

6.           Sellers/Agent: Property Posting: restricted content

In connection with the restrictions set out below, we may refuse or edit or remove a Property Posting which does not comply with these terms.

In addition to the restrictions set out above, a Property Posting must not contain:

6.1.       hyperlinks, other than those specifically authorised by us;

6.2.       keywords or words repeated, which are irrelevant to the Property Posted.

6.3.       the name, logo or trademark of any organisation other than that of you or your client.

6.4.       inaccurate, false, or misleading information.

6.5.       If you cancel the sale deal and refund payment to buyer, we are not obliged to repay commission to you.

6.6.       By registering with us, you accept that we may send to you from time to time offers by third parties to supply goods or services to you.

6.7.       If or when you cancel your account, we may delete all your personal information and documents relating to you. We may also delete your information if you have not taken any active step for a period of at least 12months.

6.8.       We are not obliged to delete your personal information immediately. We are not liable for any action of a third party in their use of your information.

7.           Removal of offensive Content

7.1.       For the avoidance of doubt, this paragraph is addressed to any person who comes on Our Website for any purpose.

7.2.       We are under no obligation to monitor or record the activity of any user of Our Website for any purpose, nor do we assume any responsibility to monitor or police internet-related activities. However, we may do so without notice to you and without giving you a reason.

7.3.       If you are offended by any Content, the following procedure applies:

7.3.1       your claim or complaint must be submitted to us in the form available on Our Website, or contain the same information as that requested in our form. It must be sent to us by post or email.

7.3.2       we shall remove the offending Content as soon as we are reasonably able;

7.3.3       after we receive notice of a claim or complaint, we shall investigate so far as we alone decide;

7.3.4       we may re-instate the Content about which you have complained or not.

7.4.       In respect of any complaint made by you or any person on your behalf, whether using our form of complaint or not, you now irrevocably grant us a licence to publish the complaint and all ensuing correspondence and communication, without limit.

7.5.       You now agree that if any complaint is made by you frivolously or vexatiously you will repay us the cost of our investigation including legal fees, if any.

8.           Security of Our Website

If you violate Our Website we shall take legal action against you.

You now agree that you will not, and will not allow any other person to:

8.1.       modify, copy, or cause damage or unintended effect to any portion of Our Website, or any software used within it.

8.2.       link to Our Website in any way that would cause the appearance or presentation of Our Website to be different from what would be seen by a user who accessed Our Website by typing the URL into a standard browser;

8.3.       download any part of Our Website, without our express written consent;

8.4.       collect or use any product listings, descriptions, or prices;

8.5.       collect or use any information obtained from or about Our Website or the Content except as intended by this agreement;

8.6.       aggregate, copy or duplicate in any manner any of the Content or information available from Our Website, other than as permitted by this agreement or as is reasonably necessary for your use of the Services;

8.7.       share with a third party any login credentials to Our Website;

8.8.       Despite the above terms, we now grant a licence to you to:

8.8.1       create a hyperlink to Our Website for the purpose of promoting an interest common to both of us. You can do this without specific permission. This licence is conditional upon your not portraying us or any product or service in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark of ours as part of the link without our express written consent.

8.8.2       you may copy the text of any page for your personal use in connection with the purpose of Our Website or a Service we provide.

9.           Storage of data

9.1.       We assume no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store or deliver email or other messages.

9.2.       We may, from time to time, set a limit on the number of messages you may send, store, or receive through the Service. We may delete messages in excess of that limit. We shall give you notice of any change to your limit, except in an emergency.

9.3.       You accept that we cannot be liable to you for any such deletion or failure to deliver to you.

9.4.       We maintain reasonable procedures for general backup of Our Data for our own purposes but we give no warranty that your data will be saved or backed up in any particular circumstances unless we have made specific contractual arrangements with you in writing.

10.      Termination

10.1.     If you or we terminate your account, all your account information may be deleted from our servers.

10.2.     Subject to the provisions set out in paragraph three above, you may terminate this agreement at any time, for any reason, with immediate effect. You may terminate the agreement either by sending notice to us by post or email, or by completing the form on Our Website and submitting it. We reserve the right to check the validity of any request to terminate your account.

10.3.     We may terminate this agreement at any time, for any reason, with immediate effect by sending you notice to that effect by post or email.

10.4.     Termination by either party shall have the following effects:

10.4.1    your right to use the Services immediately ceases;

10.4.2    we are under no obligation to forward any unread or unsent messages to you or any third party;

10.5.     There shall be no re-imbursement or credit if the Service is terminated due to your violation of the terms of this agreement.

11.      Interruption to Services

11.1.     If it is necessary for us to interrupt the Services, we will give you reasonable notice where this is possible and when we judge the down time is such as to justify telling you.

11.2.     You acknowledge that the Services may also be interrupted for many reasons beyond our control.

11.3.     You agree that we are not liable to you for any loss, foreseeable or not, arising from any interruption to the Services.

12.      Intellectual Property

You agree that at all times you will:

12.1.     not do anything which does or might reduce the value of our Intellectual Property or challenge our ownership of it.

12.2.     notify us of any suspected infringement of the Intellectual Property;

12.3.     so far as concerns software provided or made accessible by us to you, you will not:

12.3.1    copy, or make any change to any part of its code;

12.3.2    use it in any way not anticipated by this agreement;

12.3.3    give access to it to any other person than you, the licensee in this agreement;

12.3.4    in any way provide any information about it to any other person or generally.

12.4.     not use the Intellectual Property except directly in our interest.

13.      Warnings and explanations

13.1.     You use Our Website at your own risk.

13.2.     We do not moderate or censor Property Postings or any other Content Posted by users of Our Website but if we decide to remove any Content, we do not have to give you the reason why we have done so.

13.3.     Our Website contains Content Posted by many people. By its very nature other people’s information may be offensive, harmful, incomplete or inaccurate.

13.4.     Access to and use of Our Website may be unlawful in some countries by some people.

13.5.     You cannot rely on a person being who he claims to be or that he is acting honestly. Beware of dealing with strangers and children. (People over the age of 16 are allowed to use Our Website, but that may not prevent younger children from coming onto Our Website and using it fraudulently).

13.6.     Our Website contains links to other Internet websites. We have neither power nor control over any such website. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be liable in any way for the content of any such linked website, nor for any loss or damage arising from your use of any such website or from your buying services or goods via such a website.

13.7.     Our Website may contain advertisements for goods, services or information. We do not investigate the value or use of any goods or services advertised nor the commercial integrity of any advertiser.

14.      Disclaimers and limitation of liability

14.1.     The law differs from one country to another. This paragraph applies so far as the applicable law allows.

14.2.     All implied conditions, warranties and terms are excluded from this agreement. If in any jurisdiction an implied condition, warrant or term cannot be excluded, then this sub paragraph shall be deemed to be reduced in effect, only to the extent necessary to release that specific condition, warranty or term.

14.3.     Our Website and our Services are provided “as is”. We make no representation or warranty that the Service will be:

14.3.1    useful to you;

14.3.2    of satisfactory quality;

14.3.3    fit for a particular purpose;

14.3.4    available or accessible, without interruption, or without error.

14.4.     We claim no expert knowledge in any subject. We disclaim any obligation or liability to you arising directly or indirectly from information you take from Our Website.

14.5.     We shall not be liable to you for any loss or expense arising out of or in connection with your use of Our Website, which is indirect or consequential loss, or economic loss or other loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill. This applies whether in an action of contract, negligence or otherwise, even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable or we knew you might incur it.

14.6.     We make no representation or warranty and accept no responsibility in law for:

14.6.1    accuracy of any Content or the impression or effect it gives;

14.6.2    delivery of Content, material or any message;

14.6.3    privacy of any transmission;

14.6.4    any act or omission of any person or the identity of any person who introduces himself to you through Our Website;

14.6.5    any aspect or characteristic of any goods or services advertised on Our Website.

14.7.     Our Website includes Content Posted by third parties. We are not responsible for any such Content. If you come across any Content which offends you, please contact us via the “Contact us” page on Our Website.

14.8.     We will do all we can to maintain access to Our Website, but it may be necessary for us to suspend all or part of our service for repairs, maintenance or other good reasons. We may do so without telling you first.

14.9.     This paragraph (and any other paragraph which excludes or restricts our liability or provides an indemnity to us) applies to our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies, as well as to us.

14.10.If you become aware of any breach of any term of this agreement by any person, please tell us. We welcome your input but do not guarantee to agree with your judgement.

14.11.Nothing in this agreement excludes liability for a party’s fraud.

15.      You indemnify us

You agree to indemnify us against all costs, claims and expense arising directly or indirectly from:

15.1.     your failure to comply with the law of any country;

15.2.     your breach of this agreement;

15.3.     any act, neglect or default by any agent, buyer, licensee or customer of yours;

15.4.     a claim in contract or tort, arising from your use of the Services

15.5.     Although this agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the South Africa, software downloaded from or via Our Website may also be subject to export control law of the United States of America or other jurisdictions. If you breach those laws you will have committed an offence in that or those countries. By downloading or using such software, you now represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country.

16.      Miscellaneous matters

16.1.     You undertake to provide us your current land address, e-mail address and telephone numbers as often as they are changed together with all information that we may require to enable us to fulfil our obligations under this contract.

16.2.     If any term or provision of this agreement is at any time held by any jurisdiction to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then it shall be treated as changed or reduced, only to the extent minimally necessary to bring it within the laws of that jurisdiction and to prevent it from being void and it shall be binding in that changed or reduced form. Subject to that, each provision shall be interpreted as severable and shall not in any way affect any other of these terms.

16.3.     The rights and obligations of the parties set out in this agreement shall pass to any permitted successor in title.

16.4.     If you are in breach of any term of this agreement, we may:

16.4.1    terminate your account and refuse access to Our Website;

16.4.2    remove or edit Content, or cancel any order at our discretion;

16.4.3    issue a claim in any court.

16.5.     Any obligation in this agreement intended to continue to have effect after termination or completion shall so continue.

16.6.     No failure or delay by any party to exercise any right, power or remedy will operate as a waiver of it nor indicate any intention to reduce that or any other right in the future.

16.7.     Any communication to be served on either of the parties by the other shall be delivered by hand or sent by fastmail service or recorded delivery or by e-mail.

16.8.     In the event of a dispute between the parties to this agreement, then they undertake to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.

16.9.     So far as the law permits, and unless otherwise stated, this agreement does not give any right to any third.

16.10.Neither party shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance of this agreement which is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

16.11.In the event of any conflict between any term of this agreement and the provisions of the memorandum of incorporation of a limited company or any comparable document intended to regulate any other corporate or collective body, then the terms of this agreement shall prevail.

16.12.The validity, construction and performance of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa and you agree that any dispute arising from it shall be litigated only in that country.