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WEBSITE USAGE AND PRIVACY INFORMATION

By using the Ring Artisan website these Terms of Use apply to you and you agree to comply with the terms of Use.


Please read these Terms of Use before using the Ring Artisan website.

Important information

Ring Artisan is one of South Africa’s leading custom jewellery designers.

The terms of use set out below apply to this and all other websites owned, operated, or sponsored by any member of Ring Artisan – unless such other website specifically provides otherwise.

By using the Ring Artisan website these Terms of Use apply to you and you agree to comply with the terms of Use. Please check the website regularly for changes to the Terms of Use. The Terms of Use may change from time to time and the terms displayed at the time that you use the website will govern your use of the website. Please address any comments or inaccuracies contained in the website to info@ringartisan.com 

Nature of website contents

Information contained on the website is intended to serve as general information on the chosen subjects and not as an exhaustive treatment of those subjects.

Calculations which may be displayed on the website are intended for the convenience of clients, may be approximations, and are intended only as guidelines. Should you wish to rely on any calculation you are advised to check the calculations before using them as Ring Artisan will not be liable for any inaccuracy in the calculation of prices.

Subscribing to any service or buying any product through the website is subject to Ring Artisan’s contractual terms and conditions, and applicable legislation.

Links to third party websites are provided for convenience only, and may be discontinued at any time. The fact that Ring Artisan provides a link to a third party website does not necessarily mean that Ring Artisan endorses, authorises, or sponsors that website, or that Ring Artisan is affiliated to such website’s owners or sponsors.

If any third party website, which is not under the direct control of Ring Artisan, can be accessed from a link displayed on the Ring Artisan website, Ring Artisan shall not be responsible or liable for any content displayed on the third-party website.

The content or information displayed on a Ring Artisan website or any third party website which may be accessed through links provided on the Ring Artisan website is not intended as advice but merely as information. Before making any decision or taking any action based on any information displayed on the Ring Artisan website or any such third party website that may affect your personal finances or business, it is recommended that you first obtain appropriate professional advice.

Visitors from foreign countries

Use of the Ring Artisan website or the purchase of services or products from the country from which you may access the website may be illegal in that country or strictly regulated. Your use of the website for any purchase that you may make is entirely at your own risk. It is recommended that you ensure that use of the Ring Artisan website for any purchases made by you are not in violation of the laws of any country by which you may be governed.

Restricted use

Unless otherwise indicated in writing, all information, products, and services displayed on or accessed through the Ring Artisan website are for your personal and non-commercial use only. You may not –

  1. Reproduce, modify, or create derivative works from; publish, distribute, transmit, or display; or license or transfer any of the content displayed on the website – unless you have Ring Artisan’s prior written authorisation;
  2. Decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the website, a linked website, or any software employed in the display or operation of the website;
  3. Post on or transmit to the website content of an unlawful nature, for example: (a) content that is threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane; or (b) content that could damage Ring Artisan’s image or impair its ability to do business;
  4. Use the website in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Ring Artisan server (computer), or network connected to any Ring Artisan server, or interfere with any other party’s use of the Ring Artisan website;
  5. Interfere with any content displayed on the Ring Artisan website or attempt or gain unauthorised access (without Ring Artisan’s written consent) to the information displayed on the website to which you may not be authorised, or to any secure area on the website, a Ring Artisan server or any other part of the Ring Artisan information system. Any attempt, whether successful or unsuccessful, to interfere with the information displayed on the Ring Artisan website or to gain access to information or any part of the Ring Artisan information system to which you are not authorized, is unlawful and is an offence in terms of the provisions of Section 86 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act No. 25 of 2002, for which you may be prosecuted and, if found guilty, punished.
  6. Create a link from another website to the Ring Artisan website, or any of the web pages which constitute the Ring Artisan website, without Ring Artisan’s prior written consent;
  7. Frame the website or any of its pages without Ring Artisan’s prior written consent.

Electronic transactions, communications, and records

When you communicate with Ring Artisan by electronic communication provided or as may be directed on this website, you consent to receiving responses to your communications by electronic communication and via Google, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, addressed to you by Ring Artisan. You also consent to Ring Artisan and it’s relevant agencies using your detail to communicate to you via email, WhatsApp, Google, Facebook and Instagram. You thereby agree that all electronic agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications sent by Ring Artisan satisfy any legal requirement that such communications should be in writing.

You accept the risks inherent in electronic communication in whatever form.

You consent to Ring Artisan acting on the information communicated to Ring Artisan electronically. You are responsible to ensure that Ring Artisan has received the information communicated electronically.

You acknowledge and consent that Ring Artisan, in its discretion, may retain and store your electronic communications as may be lawfully required. You agree that the electronic records stored by Ring Artisan will constitute rebuttable) proof (it may be challenged) of the content of the records.

Any email communication sent to you will be regarded for the purposes of this agreement to have been received by you when it enters an information system outside of the control of Ring Artisan.

Secure payment system

If any payments are to be made by you to Ring Artisan you will be required to use a payment system authorised (consented to in writing) by Ring Artisan. Ring Artisan shall only use a payment system that is sufficiently secure considering nature of the payment to be made and the risk inherent in making the payment electronically. Ring Artisan accepts liability for any damages that may be suffered to you due to a failure in a payment system authorised by Ring Artisan.

Privacy policy

Your privacy is important to Ring Artisan. Personal information transmitted to Ring Artisan will be treated in accordance with Ring Artisan’s Privacy Policy.

  1. In accordance with some of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google’s recent compulsory policies, we herewith inform you that we might be tracking your cookies as our website / company is currently undertaking Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google AdWords remarketing or any other Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Google AdWords feature that tracks such cookies.
  2. By visiting this site, you agree that certain of our remarketing and or other advertisements can follow you as you visit other web sites that forms part of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Google’s Display Network (GDN).
  3. Note that we shall under no circumstances be utilizing any personally identifiable information as obtained through our remarketing campaigns in any other related marketing endeavours – online or otherwise. (Such restricted utilization of information includes the sharing of such with third parties.)
  4. The Company shall under no circumstances be using any sensitive information of any nature on any of our remarketing tags.
  5. The Company shall duly endeavour to adhere to all of the current in-effect policies of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and or Google related to remarketing or any other form of Google advertising in all of its Google AdWords marketing campaigns. (In instances of possible non-conformity to such, the Company shall endeavour to rectify such in a prompt manner.)
  6. You may opt out of seeing advertisements for web site, by simply clicking on the links provided on Facebook, Instagram and or for Google.
  7. We have implemented certain Facebook Business Analytics and Google Analytics features for the primary purpose of attempting to ascertain the success of our online marketing endeavours via the Google AdWords platform.

No liability

Ring Artisan will not be responsible for any loss incurred or damages suffered (whether direct, indirect, special, or consequential) to you or any third party that may be attributable, directly or indirectly, to the use of, or reliance upon, any content displayed on the Ring Artisan website by you.

Ring Artisan will not be responsible for any interruption, delayed or failed transmission, loss of programs or other data, or the storage or delivery of information resulting from whatever cause.

Warranties provided by you

For all purposes, you warrant (confirm) –

  1. Your identity (that is, you are who you say you are), and that you can prove your identity should Ring Artisan require you to do so;
  2. That all information you provide at any time to Ring Artisan using the Ring Artisan website, in writing, or to Ring Artisan Call Centre staff, will in all respects be current, complete, and accurate;
  3. That you will provide to Ring Artisan all material and relevant facts required by Ring Artisan as may be appropriate to any dealings you have with Ring Artisan. If you do not provide the information, or provide information that is incorrect, Ring Artisan may, at its choice, cancel the agreement or transaction arising from your dealings with Ring Artisan.

Intellectual property rights

The website and all its content (including software, text, graphics, icons, hyperlinks, private information, and designs) are owned by or licensed to Ring Artisan.

As the intellectual property rights in the content referred to immediately above are protected against infringement by local and international legislation and treaties, it may not be used in any way without Ring Artisan or the licensor’s prior written consent.

The image used on all banner visuals as part of the Budget speech campaign is governed under theCreative Commons Licence (Attribution 3.0 unported) and has not been modified.

Breach

Ring Artisan reserves the right to –

  1. Refuse you further access to the website if (a) you breach any of the terms of use applicable from time to time; (b) Ring Artisan is unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to it;
  2. or (c) Ring Artisan believes that you are conducting activities that are illegal, abusive, threaten the integrity of the website, or may place Ring Artisan in disrepute;
  3. Refer any breach to the police if such breach constitutes a crime;
  4. Claim damages for all loss and damage it suffers, and expenses it incurs, as a result of your breach.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ring Artisan, any member of Ring Artisan and its respective directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers, and any third party information providers from and against all losses and expenses (including attorney-and own client costs), resulting from any failure to adhere to these terms of use by you.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

Your use of the Ring Artisan website will for all purposes relating to its use, constitute your consent and submission to the jurisdiction of the High Court of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division).

Any claim arising from –

  1. The use or inability to use the website;
  2. An application for, and the rendering of a service or providing of a product;
  3. is subject to the laws of the Republic of South Africa – in respect of both the basis of the claim [contract, delict (tort), or any other], and the law relating to procedure and evidence.

All proceedings will be held in English and the unsuccessful party will be liable to pay all costs incurred by the successful party, including costs as between attorney and own client.

Ring Artisan’s Consent

To obtain Ring Artisan’s consent as provided for in these Terms of Use, please address the request to info@ringartisan.com