Website Terms of Use
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use of this website. By using this website, you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using this website.
Owner Information
This website is operated by Sovereign Food Investments Limited trading as Sovereign Foods (herewith referred to as ‘The Owner’). Sovereign Foods is a private company registered in South Africa with reg.no. 1995/03990/06 with registered offices in Uitenhage, South Africa.
Disclaimer
Whilst we have taken reasonable care in compiling this website, Sovereign Foods shall not be held liable for any action taken by any person or organisation, direct or otherwise, of information contained in or accessed through this website, whether such information is provided by Sovereign Foods or by a third party. No content on this website are to be construed as the giving of advice or the making of any recommendation and this website shall not be relied upon as the basis for any decision or action.
As a result of ongoing improvements , advances and developments, the information on this website may not always be completely up to date and, for this reason, such information is provided on an ‘AS IS’ and ‘AS AVAILABLE’ basis. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR GIVE ANY UNDERTAKINGS EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED ABOUT ANY OF THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE TIMELINESS, CURRENCY, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF SUCH CONTENT OR THAT THE RESULTS WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR FREE OR RELIABLE. The user of this website agrees that the use of information obtained or downloaded from or through this website is at his/her sole discretion and risk.
Our Liability
To the extent permitted by law, Sovereign Foods, and all members of the Sovereign Food Investments Ltd Group and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; and
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for (i) loss of income or revenue, (ii) loss of business, (iii) loss of profits or contracts, (iv) loss of anticipated savings, (v) loss of data, (vi) loss of goodwill, (vii) wasted management or office time; and (viii) for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
We do not warrant that functions contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
Intellectual Property Rights
The intellectual property rights in this website, including without limitation, in all documents, files, text, images, RSS feeds, audio files, podcasts, video files, flash tutorials, graphics, devices and code contained in it and in this website’s general ‘look and feel’, is owned by Sovereign Foods or its third party providers. These works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You are authorised to make a single copy and to print extracts or documents from this website (except for any third party owned content which has been identified as such) for your non-commercial use provided any such copy or print retains all copyright or other proprietary notices and any disclaimer contained within them. All Sovereign Foods names, logos and trademarks may not be used or reproduced without our prior written consent.
Other than as specifically mentioned above, reproduction of part or all of the contents of this website in any form, including framing, creating any derivative work based on this website and or its content, incorporation into other websites, electronic retrieval systems or publications is prohibited. You may not use any diagrams, illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. No links to this website may be included in any other website without our prior written permission.
We cannot guarantee that you have any right to use third party owned content which is available on this website and you must obtain permission from the third party owner before using or downloading such content. Content which is copyright protected may not be changed nor may any author attribution notice or copyright notice appearing on such content be altered without first obtaining the appropriate consents.
Except for the limited permission set out above, nothing on this website should be construed as granting any other right or licence.
All product names referred to on this website are trademarks of Sovereign Foods or its Affiliates, except for those marks which are indicated as owned by other companies and all rights are reserved.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
The user of this website shall not misuse this website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. The user shall not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. The user shall not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, the user would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Any such breach shall be reported to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing the user identity. In the event of such a breach, the user’s right to use this website will cease immediately.
Sovereign Foods will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to the use of this website or to the user’s downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. In accordance with good computing practices, the user is advised to virus check all materials and/or content accessed and/or downloaded from this website using commercially available, up to date virus checking software.
Third party websites and content
This website may contain third party owned content (e.g. articles, image libraries, data feeds or abstracts) and may also include hypertext links to third party owned websites. Sovereign Foods provide such third party content and links as a courtesy to our users. Links are provided for the user’s information only. Sovereign Foods has no control over any third party owned websites or content referred to, accessed by or available on this website and, therefore, does not endorse, sponsor, recommend or otherwise accept any responsibility for such third party websites or content or for the availability of such websites. In particular, Sovereign Foods does not accept any liability arising out of any allegation that any third party owned content (whether published on this, or any other, website) infringes the intellectual property rights of any person or any liability arising out of any information or opinion contained on such third party website or content.
Changes to this website
Sovereign Foods reserves the right to change any part of this website or this legal notice at any time without notice. Any changes to this legal notice shall take effect from the next visit to the website. Notwithstanding the above, Sovereign Foods shall not be obliged to keep this website up to date.
How to contact us
For any further information or queries, Sovereign Foods can be contact by email at: info@sovfoods.co.za.