Terms

Effective Date: 13 October 2024

Caroline Hartley Photography (hereinafter referred to as "Owner", "we", "us", "our", and the like) owns and operates this website, and therefore is giving the following Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as "Terms" and/or "Agreement"):

YOU, as the visitor, member, subscriber, customer or partner (hereinafter referred to as "You", "Visitor", "Visitors", and the like), are required to read, acknowledge and agree to all the provisions of this Agreement before you use this website, or any of its parts.

CONTENT (hereinafter referred to as "Content") refers to any content published and available on this website, or any other media owned, operated, or otherwise affiliated with the Owner, including, but not limited to, any textual, graphic, audio, video, downloadable, or other type of content, software, applications, and the like.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

By using our website, You acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • You have carefully read ang agreed, without exception, to all provisions of this Agreement and all other legally-oriented documents published on our website;
  • You will stop using our website immediately if you do not agree with this Agreement and other legally-oriented documents on our website;
  • You will leave this website immediately if you are not at least 18 years old. Our website is not intended to be used by children and minors;
  • We cannot be liable in any way for any damages and loses that can come out as a result of using this website, or any part of the Content;
  • We hold all the rights to forbid and discontinue access to our website to any visitor, at any time, on our own discretion, without prior notice;
  • We may collect, process, store and share various types of data, including your personal information. For more information read our Privacy Notice;
  • We may change the content of this Agreement and other legally-oriented documents published on our website when necessary. We are not required to inform you about those changes. It is your obligation to check for any possible changes before using our website;
  • We are not required to comply with any agreement that You may have with any other website. Therefore, no other agreements will have any effect regarding your use of this website;

Furthermore, by using this website, You acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • We cannot guarantee the accuracy, reliability or relevance of the Content, nor we recommend any type of use of the Content without seeking proper advice and confirmation from officially trained professionals;
  • We have no intention to provide You with any type of professional or reliable advice, or to create any type of special or binding relationship with You;
  • The Content represents personal opinions and experience of the Owner or authors, and should not be taken and used as professional advice;
  • The Content does not represent any type of legal, financial, investment, business, medical or healthcare advice nor is intended for use in such and similar purposes;
  • You should use this website and the Content for informative purposes only;
  • Any use of the Content is at your own risk;
  • We may change, modify, update or remove any part of the Content, as well as any feature or functionality of this website, at our own discretion, at any time, without prior notice;

YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

By using our website, You acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • You should assume that any part of the Content is copyrighted and owned by the Owner;
  • You are not allowed to use any part of the Content in any way, especially not for commercial, non-commercial, or otherwise public purposes, including but not limited to, any copying, broadcasting, distribution, storage, printing, selling, publishing, and the like;
  • Any possible use of the Content, if not explicitly authorized by the Owner, is illegal and may be a ground for a lawsuit, as well as criminal or civil prosecution;
  • You are not allowed to, in any way, reference this website, its elements, pages, or any part of the Content, on any commercial, non-commercial or public medium, without the explicit written permission issued by the Owner. This includes, but is not limited to, links, descriptions, screenshots, mentions, comments, or any other type of reference;
  • You are not allowed to display any page of this website, or any part of the Content, using "frames", also known as "framing". Such illegal method to reference a website will not be tolerated;
  • You are entirely responsible for any content or material you published on this website and required to endure all the consequences that may arise as a result of the content You made available on this website;
  • You are not allowed to publish copyrighted content (unless You hold appropriate rights), sensitive data, any type of promotional material, any form of inappropriate, illegal or false content, including, but not limited to, obscene, hateful, harassing, threatening, racist, religiously oriented, or any other type of content that could be unpleasant to other Visitors;
  • You should use any content published by Visitors at your own risk, and should not assume that we in any way support the opinions expressed in such content;
  • You entirely and forever waive the right to initiate a lawsuit against the Owner, or submit a request for compensation of any form for damages, losses or failures that may be caused by your use of this website, or any part of the Content;
  • You may be required to cover all the costs, including the compensation for the loss to the Owner, for all damages and losses caused by performing any actions that are prohibited by this Agreement, or by not taking necessary steps to prevent prohibited activities;

OUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

By using this website, You acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • This is our website. Therefore, and we have all the rights to set it up and use it in any way we find appropriate, as well to publish any type of the Content that we feel is the right fit for our website;
  • We may block access to this website to any Visitor, at our own discretion, at any time and for any reason, without prior notice or further explanation, especially in the case of violation of this Agreement or other legally-oriented documents published on our website;
  • We may create and form parts of this website with access limited to only to members and registered users. Such parts may be protected by user registration system or similar mechanism. You should assume that such parts of our website represent premium content, product or service, and therefore we may charge a reasonable price for access to such parts of our website;
  • We may allow Visitors to become members or users of this website by allowing them to register free or paid user accounts at our website. Users who obtain the proper user account are entirely responsible for all actions and activities performed under their user account;
  • We may block any user account and restrict further access to this website, or any protected area, at our own discretion, at any time and for any reason, especially in the case of violation of any part of this Agreement;
  • We may be affiliated with the third-party product and service providers, and therefore we may publish content, references, descriptions, and other types of content related to products and services owned by third parties, including links pointing to third-party websites;
  • We may get paid, or in any other way compensated, for publishing any type of content and links related to products, services, or websites of third-party providers;
  • We cannot be held responsible for any content, information, results, damages or loses caused by the use of products, services or websites owned, sold or operated by third parties, since we do not have any power or any type of control over those products, services, and websites;
  • We may allow Visitors to publish their own content on our website, including, but not limited to, comments, guest posts, reviews, thoughts, and the like. However, we are not, and cannot be responsible for any content published by Visitors;
  • We cannot and do not guarantee the accuracy, relevancy or reliability of any content posted by Visitors, and therefore cannot take any liability for such content;
  • We reserve the right to remove any content created by Visitors at our own discretion, without prior notice, at any time and for any reason, especially when such content violates this Agreement or provisions of any other legally-oriented documents published on our website;
  • We may take all required and available measures and actions to prevent illegal use of this website or any violation of this Agreement. We may report all suspicious and unlawful activities to regulatory bodies, in which process we have every right to disclose any information, including personal data, that might be required to identify offenders;
  • We may unlimitedly use any part of any form of communication between You and the Owner, including, but not limited to, email messages, textual messages, chat sessions, support submissions, letters, and the like, including all the parts of such communications, in any way that we find appropriate, including any commercial, non-commercial or public use, without the requirement to obtain additional permissions from You, pay You any compensation fee, or further inform You about about our actions and use of any part of our communications;

DISCLAIMERS

By using our website, You acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • The Owner takes no liability for any damages or losses to the Visitor's computer or software that may be caused by the use of our website, downloaded files, or any other part of the Content;
  • If any part of the Content refers to any form of earnings, earning methods, systems for making money, products or services the use of which presupposes the ability to make any profit, we cannot and do not guarantee that you will make any amount of money using techniques, ideas, materials, products, services, and the like, mentioned in any part of the Content;
  • Examples, reviews, testimonials, quotes, opinions, and the like, that may refer to any type of system, method, product, or service related to possible earnings, should not be understood as a guarantee or promise of potential earnings;
  • Any of the products, services, strategies, methods, or ideas mentioned in the Content, whether owned and sold by Owner or not, is not, and can not be considered as a business opportunity;
  • Available payment models and methods will be clearly displayed and published on this website, or the sales or offer pages of individual products or services;
  • You agree to use available billing methods at your own risk;
  • We cannot and will not be held liable for any problems, damages, or losses that may occur during your use of any billing method available on our website, or during billing processes performed by third-party billing providers, such as, banks, credit cards, Paypal, and the like;
  • Cancellation of any order without the charge may be made until the order is completed and the ordered products or services are entirely delivered to You. Cancellation requests should be sent to the customer service, or submitted directly to the Owner, through available contact information, or as indicated on the sales or offer page, invoice, or a specific page on this website;
  • Refunds may be requested with the legally stipulated deadline, or within period defined on the sales or offer page, invoice, or specific page on this website, by sending written request to the customer service, or directly to the Owner through available contact information, unless otherwise specified on the sales or offer page, invoice, or specific page on this website;
  • Names or titles of products, services, publications, and content parts listed and published on our website are or may be, the exclusive trademarks or service names of our products, services, websites, company, or affiliated third parties. Other product, service, or company names listed on this website may be trademarks of their respective owners;

OTHER PROVISIONS

In the case of any type of dispute or court cases, You agree with the following:

  • All disputes should be initiated within one year of the occurrence of a particular cause. Otherwise, the matter will be considered obsolete, which will prevent all further actions on that matter;
  • All disputes should be resolved by mutual consent between You and the Owner, in accordance with this Agreement, other legally-oriented documents available on this website, and all the laws and regulations applicable at the site of the Owner;
  • Any other agreement or document will have no effect or significance, and cannot be used as a legal basis in the event of any dispute or court case;
  • We reserve the right to initiate a lawsuit against the Visitor, in any case of serious violation of this Agreement, especially when Visitor's actions cause damages and expenses that we have to cover;
  • All eventual court cases should be initiated at the court in charge at the location of the Owner;

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about your rights or provisions of this Agreement, or you want to contact us regarding any other matter, you can do so by using the following information:

Company name: Caroline Hartley Photography
Address: Somerset West
Email address: james@minnie-online.com
Contact: +27822386460
Responsible person: James Minnie
Data Protection Officer: James Minnie

We give our best to timely respond to every query and messages, but allow us up to 7 days to reply to your message.

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