TERMS OF USE

You agree to use this Site for Lawful purposes only.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting, by means of reviews, comments, suggestions, ideas, questions or other information through the Site, any content which is, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually-explicit, profane or hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable content of any kind, which includes but is not limited to.

Any content that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, provincial, national, or international law; or any content that constitutes an invasion of privacy; or any content that is an infringement of any intellectual property right; or any content that contains software viruses; or any content that constitutes a political statement, commercial solicitation, or “Spam”. Although THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, do not purport to review (nor is it under any obligation to review) any submitted content, it reserves the right to remove any content from the Site where it deems such content, in its sole and absolute discretion, to be an infringement of these terms and conditions or harmful in anyway whatsoever.

Should you place on or submit to the Site any such harmful content or should you breach any clause in these Terms and Conditions, THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, may immediately terminate and/or suspend your access to all or parts of the Site, without any further notice to you.

The following activities on or through the Site are expressly prohibited:

Any non-personal or commercial use of any robot, spider, other automatic device or technology, or manual process to monitor or copy portions of the Site or the content contained thereon, without the prior written authority of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates; and The collection or use of any listings, descriptions, and/or price lists from the Site for the benefit of a competing merchant that supplies products comparable to those offered on the Site; and Any use or action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately-large load of traffic on the Site, or otherwise interferes with the proper and timely functioning of the Site; any attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site or its related systems or networks; accessing the Site for purposes of monitoring its availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purpose; and the reverse engineering or decompiling of the Site to: (i) build a competitive product or service; (ii) build a product using similar ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Service; (iii) copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Site. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your User Name and Password for access to the Site and you accept full liability for all activities that occur on or related to the Site under
your User Name.

You may not: impersonate another User or any third party; and provide false information to gain access to the Site.

Intellectual property:

All content included on this web site, such as text, graphics, logos, buttons, icons, images, photographs, audio clips, databases and software (“the Content”), is the property of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, or it’s content suppliers and protected by South African and international copyright laws. Furthermore, the compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on this web site is the exclusive property of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, and is protected by South Africa and international copyright laws.

Except as stated herein, none of the material may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except as permitted by the fair use privilege under the South African copyright laws or without the prior written permission of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, or the copyright owner.

You may not “mirror” any content contained on the Site on any other server unless with the prior written permission of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Site, provided that the link does not portray THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner. You may not use any THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, logo or any other proprietary graphic or trademark whatsoever as part of the link without the express written permission of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and various associates, it’s affiliates and/or content suppliers.

All trademarks are and shall remain the exclusive property of THE HANDMADE STORY, it’s registered entity, trading entities, directors, owners, staff and
various associates,

Use of cookies:

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