Member Registration

Please Note: Before registering and becoming a member on the Website of Charl Laas Optometrists, we ask that you carefully read the following terms and conditions of use.
By visiting the Website and clicking the ‘register’ button to register and/or using this web site, you agree to these terms. From time to time we may update these terms and your continued use of this web site indicates your acceptance of these new terms.

Any Non-Human Visitors to the Website shall be considered agents of the individual(s) who controls, authors or otherwise makes use of them. The access rights granted to you under the Terms of Service are non-transferable without the express written permission of the owner of the Website.

In order to access the member material on this web site, you must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to provide personal data (such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and medical registration number). This information is used to keep track of our web users. Charl Laas Optometrists respects your privacy and is committed to protect the personal information you share with us. Your name and contact information will not be sold, shared or rented to any 3rd parties.
 

Password

If you have a password you undertake to keep it secure and warrant that no other person shall use your membership services at Charl Laas Optometrists Website utilising your password, and you acknowledge further that you are responsible for ensuring that no unauthorised access to Charl Laas Optometrists membership services is obtained using your password, and that you will be liable for all such activities conducted pursuant to such use, whether authorised or not.

Log Files

Charl Laas Optometrists uses IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site forum, track user's movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
 

Special License Restrictions for Non-Human Visitors

Special restrictions on a visitor's license to access the Website apply to Non-Human Visitors. Non-Human Visitors include, but are not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other computer programs designed to access, read, compile or gather content from the Website automatically.

E-mail addresses on this site are considered proprietary intellectual property. It is recognized that these e-mail addresses are provided for human visitors alone. You acknowledge and agree that each e-mail address the Website contains has a value not less than ZAR 500-00. You further agree that the compilation, storage, and/or distribution of these addresses substantially diminish the value of these addresses. Intentional collection, harvesting, gathering, and/or storing this Website's e-mail addresses is recognized as a violation of this agreement and expressly prohibited.

Records of Visitor Use and Abuse

You consent to having your Internet Protocol address recorded. An e-mail address may appear immediately below (the "Identifier") if potential abuse is suspected. The Identifier is uniquely matched to your Internet Protocol address. Visitors agree not to use this address for any reason.

VISITORS AGREE THAT HARVESTING, GATHERING, STORING, TRANSFERRING TO A 3rd PARTY OR SENDING ANY MESSAGE(S) TO THE IDENTIFIER CONSTITUTES AN ACCEPTANCE AND SUBSEQUENT BREACH OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.

Limitation of Liability

The articles and training content of Charl Laas Optometrists Website, such as text, graphics and images are for informational and educational purposes only. No part of the content should be construed as providing a final medical opinion, advice or other information with respect to any particular patient or person. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Nothing in these terms and conditions shall be taken to limit or exclude any liability that may not otherwise be limited or excluded under applicable law. Use of Charl Laas Optometrists Website and the materials therein are for use at your sole risk. Charl Laas Optometrists, its owners, directors, employees, officials, suppliers, agents and/or representatives will not be liable to any person for any direct, indirect, special or consequential losses, damages or awards of any kind, howsoever caused, as a result of the use of or inability to use, or reliance on, Charl Laas Optometrists Website, any of the materials, or of any linked web site.

Charl Laas Optometrists excludes all warranties, conditions, terms, undertakings and representations (excepting fraudulent misrepresentation) of any kind, express or implied, statutory or otherwise in connection with Charl Laas Optometrists Website and the materials to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Copyright

All materials contained in the Charl Laas Optometrists Website, including but not limited to content, trademarks, domain names, patents, design elements, software, source code, meta tags, databases, text, graphics, video, icons and hyperlinks, which are created or developed on the basis Charl Laas Optometrists copyrighted material by any 3rd party rightfully licensed by Charl Laas Optometrists, or sublicensed by Charl Laas Optometrists, are the copyrighted property of Charl Laas Optometrists.

The products, software and all other technology or processes described in this Website may be subject to other intellectual property rights reserved by Charl Laas Optometrists or by other 3rd parties and no license is granted in respect of those intellectual property rights.

Except for any fair use for purposes of review, criticism, study, research, as permitted under applicable copyright legislation, no part of the aforesaid materials may in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or any other means be used, reproduced, broadcast, uploaded, posted, republished, decompiled, disassembled, reverse-engineered, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way without the prior, written consent of Charl Laas Optometrists.

Charl Laas Optometrists Website would like to acknowledge and thank the following persons and libraries for supplying information, research and pictures used on our Website, Mr CR Laäs, Mr Nicholas Robertson-Muir, various royalty free photo libraries, Oculus Instruments (Germany) and Genop Instruments (South Africa), Transitions.

Submission of Content

Any content, in any form whatsoever, received by e-mail, forum post or any other data message will be assumed to have been submitted for publication free of charge, unless the sender clearly stipulates that payment for the content is required and includes all relevant contact and pricing information in the e-mail or other data message.

The publication of any and all content, either on-line or off-line, is within the sole and exclusive discretion of Charl Laas Optometrists Website.

Use of the Forum and Personal Message Service (PMS)

You may only use the forum and PMS services provided on the Charl Laas Optometrists Website for lawful purposes and you warrant that you shall not use the service:

• To publish or receive any material which is in violation of any law or regulation (national or international), contain religious slurs or hate speech, which is obscene, threatening, harassing, racist, menacing, harmful, offensive, lewd, defamatory, explicit, pornographic, in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property rights or otherwise objectionable or unlawful;
• Other than for your own personal and non-commercial use, store on your computer, print or e-mail copies of extracts from these services, and you may not, other than for your own personal and non-commercial use, cache or mirror information provided via these services on your own server or modify, adapt, copy or re-use the text, images or video from these services without prior written permission from Charl Laas Optometrists;
• To take any action, intentional or unintentional, aimed at deceiving or misleading another party or attempt to impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation to any person or entity;
• To collect or attempt to collect personal information about 3rd parties without their knowledge or written consent;
• To provided any unsolicited, unlawful or unauthorised marketing, advertising or promotional activities, including but not limited to the harvesting of addresses and the sending of spam and chain letters;
• To make any fraudulent offers to sell, exchange or buy products or services, or to offer or solicit for any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes";
• To upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that contains any viruses, or any other malicious code, which is designed to or will have the effect of disrupting in any way and to any degree the operation of this web site or any service provided on it, and of any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment on which it relies for its operation, regardless of whether or not damage was intended;

Should you engage in any of the above practices, which shall be determined in our sole discretion, Charl Laas Optometrists will be entitled to suspend or terminate, without notice, your access to and/or use of all the web site service and where unlawful actions have occurred, notify the appropriate authorities.

Web Links

Charl Laas Optometrists Website includes links to external web sites and You Tube videos. Following such links, the external web site may appear as a full screen (use the back button on your browser to return to Charl Laas Optometrists Website) or in some cases it may appear within the wrapped frame of this web site (able to navigate using the navigation buttons of this web site).

Where an external web site appears within the wrapped frame of this web site, this is purely for ease of navigation and Charl Laas Optometrists does not accept any responsibility for the external web site concerned, even if it is a web site partly or fully owned and operated by the director(s) of Charl Laas Optometrists or its employers. These links are provided in order to help you find relevant web sites, services and/or products which may be of interest to you. It is your sole responsibility to decide whether any information, services and/or products available through any of these web sites are suitable for your purposes.

Charl Laas Optometrists are not responsible for the owners or operators of these web sites, or for any goods or services they supply, or for the content of their web sites and does not give or enter into any conditions, warranties or other terms, or representations in relation to any of these, or accept any liability in relation to any of these, including any liability arising out of any claim that the content of any external web site, to which this web site includes a link, infringes the intellectual property rights of any 3rd party.

Advertising

Third party advertising and promotional material may be displayed on the web site from time to time, and the display of such material should not be construed as Charl Laas Optometrists endorsing or creating any relationship with that 3rd party. Reliance on any such promotional or advertising material is entirely at your own risk.

Termination and Variation

Charl Laas Optometrists reserve the right at any time, and from time to time, to alter, restrict and/or discontinue, either temporarily or permanently, the web site services, or any part thereof, to you in particular, or to the public in general, with or without notice or reason, or to revise these terms and conditions, and/or the prices at which the products and/or services are offered and you agree that Charl Laas Optometrists will not incur any liability, of whatsoever nature, to you for any such occurrence.

Charl Laas Optometrists can and will, at its own discretion, determine the period and level of support, if any, offered with regard to any of its services, whether direct or implied, and we make no representations and give no warranties, of whatsoever nature, in this regard.

Any and all changes will be posted on the web site and be deemed to have been accepted by you if you continue using the Charl Laas Optometrists Website services. The obligation therefore is on you to review these terms and conditions at regular intervals.

General

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and you shall accordingly submit to the jurisdiction of the South African courts in terms of section 28 of the Magistrate's Court Act as amended in respect of any and all disputes, actions and other matters in connection herewith, shall be determined in accordance with such laws. Users of this Website are asked to familiarise themselves with South African law relating to electronic communications and transactions as contained in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002. When using Charl Laas Optometrists Website and agreeing to these terms and conditions such use and agreement is deemed to have taken place in Cape Town, South Africa.

These terms and conditions are severable, in that if any provision is determined to be illegal or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision shall be deemed to have been deleted without affecting the remaining provisions of the terms and conditions.

Failure from Charl Laas Optometrists to exercise any particular rights or provision of these terms and conditions shall not construed as a waiver of such right or provision, nor shall such failure in any way affect the validity of the whole or any part of these terms and conditions, nor prejudice our right to take subsequent action, unless acknowledged and agreed to by Charl Laas Optometrists in writing.

These terms and conditions, as varied by us from time to time, due to legal and other developments, constitute the sole agreement between yourself and Charl Laas Optometrists. These terms and conditions shall be for the benefit of Charl Laas Optometrists and may be waived by us at our own discretion.

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