Ursula Gouws Consulting (PTY) LTD – Email disclaimer

“The information contained in this email is confidential and may contain proprietary and/or personal information. It is meant solely for the intended recipient. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any processing of the email or the information contained therein (including disclosure, copying, distribution, and storage) or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this is prohibited and may be unlawful.

No liability or responsibility is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended recipient.

No warranty is given that this email is free of viruses. The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author and not those of Ursula Gouws Consulting or its management. Ursula Gouws Consulting reserves the right to monitor, intercept, and block emails addressed to its users or take any other action in accordance with its email use policy.”

Applicability

This disclaimer applies to all electronic communications that are sent or received through our IT systems, including our original email, any attachments, and all subsequent emails or attachments that Ursula Gouws Consulting (the “Company”) users may send.

Recipients of communications from the Company:

Electronic communications and their attachments (collectively referred to for convenience as “email”) are intended for the named recipient/s ONLY.

If you are not the named recipient (or their authorized representative) or an intended recipient of a copy of the email or have otherwise received the email in error.

Kindly notify the sender (as specified in the email) using the contact details contained in such email and delete this message once you have notified the sender. You may not forward, copy, or otherwise transmit or disseminate the email or any of the contents thereof to any person other than the named sender or an employee of the Company’s IT Department. You may not print, save, or otherwise store the email or any of the contents thereof in electronic or physical form.

Virus Warning

We have taken all reasonable precautions to ensure that no viruses are present in our email to you, as the Company cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage arising from the use of the email or attachments. We recommend that you scan all of your emails and attachments for viruses.

Confidential

The email and its contents are confidential unless expressly stated or if this is manifestly clear from the context (including, by way of example, press releases and other official statements issued by way of email). If you are not sure of the confidentiality status of an email, please get in touch with the sender to confirm this. In addition, emails may be logged for archival purposes and may be reviewed by parties at the Company other than those named in the message header. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure, adaption, distribution, publication and/or use of, or any other unauthorized action taken based on this email message, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful and an infringement of copyright.

Consent to Monitor

Due to the nature of our business, we reserve the right to intercept, monitor, review, or disclose all emails sent or received through our IT systems and/or hardware and, to the extent required, by sending an email to our employees, you consent to such monitoring and interception.

Offers, warranties, and representations: The email does not necessarily constitute an official representation of the Company unless this is specifically stated or clearly and objec vely ascertainable from the contents of the email itself.

Emails from the Company do not, as a rule, contain warranties, representations, or offers. You accordingly cannot rely on any purported warranty, representation, or offer unless it is explicitly stated in the email and the email has been sent by a representative of the Company duly authorized to give warranties or make representations or offers on behalf of the Company.

Notwithstanding the above statement, the Company is entitled to rely on the contents of any email sent to it (including warranties, representations, or offers) unless otherwise provided.

Agreements

Company employees are not authorized to conclude binding agreements on behalf of the Company by email, and nothing contained in this email shall be construed as a legally binding agreement or an offer to contract.

Damages

While the Company uses its best endeavors to prevent loss or damage to third-party systems, it cannot be held liable for any loss or damage due to viruses or other malicious code in an email, corruption of data, or any “denial of service” or similar exploit caused by a virus or malicious code.

Offensive email content:

Our employees and other users of the Company email are subject to policies that prohibit:

the obscuring, suppressing, or replacing another user’s identity on an email (pretending to be someone else);
the use of the Company’s information on and communications systems for the exercise of the employee’s right to free speech;
sexual, religious, political, and racial harassment;
profanity, obscene, offensive, derogatory or defamatory remarks;
otherwise unlawful communication via email.

Accordingly, if an email sent by a Company user breaches any of these provisions, that email is sent in that person’s personal capacity, and the Company is not liable for such messages. The Company will take appropriate disciplinary action against any person breaching these provisions, and you can report any such breach to ursula@ursulagouws.co.za.

Applicable to South Africa only

Transmission and Receipt

In accordance with the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 (“ECTA”), an email is only deemed to be received by the Company once this is confirmed to you orally or in writing, and an email is considered to have been sent by the Company or its workers as soon as this is reflected in the Company’s mail server logs.

An auto-reply shall not constitute a response for the purpose hereof.

ECTA

This email disclaimer is enforceable and binding on the recipient in terms of sections 11(1) to 11(3) of ECTA. This email disclaimer shall, at all times, take precedence over any other email disclaimer(s).

Disclosure of email address

The email address of any employee of the Company who is a party to this email may not be used, copied, sold, disclosed, shared, or incorporated into any database or mailing list for spamming and/or online marketing practices without the prior consent of the employee and/or the Company.

General

This email disclaimer shall be governed by the law of South Africa. Any dispute arising from or in connection with this disclaimer shall be resolved in Pretoria in accordance with The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa by an independently appointed arbitrator.