TWO OCEANS AQUARIUM - WEB SITE TERMS & CONDITIONS


1. USAGE

1.1. Any persons using the Two Oceans Aquarium web site for any reason whatsoever subject themselves to and agree to the terms and conditions and privacy policy of Two Oceans Aquarium when accessing the web site as set out below.

1.2. This web site is only intended to provide the user with information regarding Two Oceans Aquarium, its products and services.

1.3. Two Oceans Aquarium expressly reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to alter and/or amend any criteria or information set out in this web site without prior notice.

1.4. Nothing on this web site shall be construed as an offer by Two Oceans Aquarium to you, the user, but merely an invitation to do business.

2. PRIVACY POLICY

2.1 Two Oceans Aquarium respects your privacy and care how information about you is used and shared. We appreciate your trust in this regard and assure you that we will make every effort to manage your information carefully, securely and sensibly. This notice describes our Privacy Policy. When visit any Two Oceans Aquarium web site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy without qualification, so please read them carefully.

2.2 Information about our customers is an important part of our business. We may provide reports based on your information to other organisations, specifically within the communities created by our Web sites, but only for statistical purposes or to extend our service offering. Such information will generally pertain to specific web site activities and will not contain sensitive or confidential information. Any information shared by us will be made available to you on request, so that you may monitor our use of information gathered. We will not provide sensitive or confidential information about you to any third party, unless required to do so by operation of the law or if it pertains to any transaction or activity between you and the third party facilitated by the Two Oceans Aquarium web site.

2.3. Some of examples of the above are -

2.3.1 Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include analysing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for any other purpose.

2.3.2 Business transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy assets, including client information.

2.3.3 Protection of parties: We release account and other personal information only if required to do so by law, or in terms of this document, other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Two Oceans Aquarium, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction and management.

2.3.4 Where you consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

2.4 Two Oceans Aquarium gathers the following information via its web sites:

2.4.1 Information provided by you: We receive and store any information you enter on our web site or provided by you in any other way. You may choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of the many of features on our web sites. We use the information that you provide to continually improve our service offering to you by analysing the information and corresponding trends and the like that may be found. The quality of any analysis or activity based on information is of course dependant on the integrity of the information supplied. Two Oceans Aquarium reserves the right to verify any information provided by you.

2.4.2 Information automatically gathered: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with the web site. For example, like many web sites, we use "cookies", and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our web sites. The "cookies" often transfer security related information so that this facility must be activated on your browser whilst accessing our web sites, or they may malfunction.

2.4.3 E-mail communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open an e-mail from us. We also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers or to grow our customer base.

2.4.4 Information from other sources: To improve our service offering, we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our information. The more information we have, the more we can tailor our service offering to meet market expectations.

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

3.1 COPYRIGHT

All content on this web site, including but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Two Oceans Aquarium or licensed to Two Oceans Aquarium and as such, are protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation and treaties. Two Oceans Aquarium expressly reserves all rights pertaining to such content.

3.2. COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

Two Oceans Aquarium and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify us by e-mail or post at the address below.

4. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

Two Oceans Aquarium will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on this web site and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically from time to time shall satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be "in writing".

5. LICENSES AND WEB SITE ACCESS

5.1 Two Oceans Aquarium hereby grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this web site provided that in making use of this web site you do not download, other than for page caching purposes. You are expressly prohibited from modifying any portion of this web site, whether in part or whole, except with the express written consent of Two Oceans Aquarium or where the facility to download is expressly provided.

5.2 This license does not include any right of resale or commercial use of this web site or its contents. For the purposes of this clause 4, any collection and/or use of any listings and/or descriptions; any derivative use of this Web site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any commercial purpose is expressly prohibited unless stated otherwise.

5.3 It is expressly prohibited to frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose and/or mask any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Two Oceans Aquarium and/or our affiliates without its express written consent.

5.4 It is expressly prohibited to use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Two Oceans Aquarium's name or trademarks without the express written consent of Two Oceans Aquarium.

5.5 Any unauthorized use of this web site, its content or applications terminates the permission or license granted by Two Oceans Aquarium. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of Two Oceans Aquarium provided the link does not portray Two Oceans Aquarium, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner.

5.6 You may not use any Two Oceans Aquarium logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

6. TERMS OF AGREEMENT

6.1. RATIFICATION: You agree that by visiting or using Two Oceans Aquarium or any other Two Oceans Aquarium web site that you are authorised to bind yourself or the legal entity you represent and do so bind yourself or the legal entity you represent to this Agreement, by any national and/or international conventions.

6.2. LEGAL ENTITY: Any account registered on this web site must be held in your name or the name of a legal entity you represent. In the event that the account is registered in the name of a natural person, the person must provide his or her national identity, social security or like number if required to do so. If the account is to be held in the name of a juristic person, the entity must provide its unique registration or like number.

6.3. SERVICES: You acknowledge that you have the necessary knowledge and infrastructure to use the Two Oceans Aquarium web site and services. You further acknowledge that Two Oceans Aquarium is not required to provide any information or other services not specifically related to the Two Oceans Aquarium web site and services.

6.4. LAWFUL PURPOSE: You may only use the Two Oceans Aquarium web sites and the services pertaining thereto for lawful purposes as defined by the legislation of the Republic of South Africa and international conventions. Where a conflict between such laws and regulations exist, the laws and regulations of the Republic of South Africa shall prevail. Use and transmission of any material in violation of any international, national or local regulation or law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to intellectual property, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, pornography or information protected by trade secrets.

7. COMMUNICATIONS AND OTHER CONTENT

7.1 You may send content and other communications provided that the content is not illegal, obscene, objectionable, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a communication. Two Oceans Aquarium reserves the right to remove or edit such content in its sole discretion.

7.2 You hereby represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post on this web site; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you indemnify Two Oceans Aquarium or its affiliates from all and any claims resulting from content you supply to Two Oceans Aquarium. Two Oceans Aquarium shall not be held responsible or liable for any content posted on the Two Oceans Aquarium web sites.

8. THIRD PARTY LINKS

Parties other than Two Oceans Aquarium and its subsidiaries may provide content on this web site form time-to-time. In addition, we provide links to the web sites of affiliated and certain other organisations. Two Oceans Aquarium will not be responsible for examining or evaluating the content of, and we do not warrant the offerings of any of these organisations or their Web sites. Two Oceans Aquarium does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third party Web sites. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.

9. CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions, queries or wish to request permission to use any part of this web site, including, linking, framing, or searching, please contact us at:

Telephone Number: +27 21 418 3823
Fax Number: +27 21 418 3952
E-Mail: Aquarium@aquarium.co.za
Website: www.aquarium.co.za

Physical Address
Dock Road
V&A Waterfront
Cape Town
South Africa

Postal Address
P.O. Box 50603
V&A Waterfront
Cape Town
8002