Introduction
This website www.granitecsd.co.za (the website) is owned and operated by Granite Central
Securities Depository Pty Ltd (Granite CSD), a company registered in South Africa with
company registration number K2011/125706/07. The following terms and conditions, which
include our privacy policy (collectively the terms of use), govern the relationship between
you, Granite CSD and its affiliates and subsidiaries in the use of the website. By using the
website, you are agreeing to comply with and be legally bound by the terms of use, and you
provide your express consent for your personal information to be dealt with on the terms of
the privacy policy.
Content
The website is intended to provide general information regarding Granite CSD and its
products and services and is not intended to, nor does it constitute, investment or other
professional advice. Before making any investment decision or taking any action that might
affect your personal finances or business, you should consult your own professional advisors.
Restrictions on use
You may print a single copy of the material contained in the website for you own noncommercial use. The reproduction, redistribution, alteration and transmission of any material
or information contained in the website are strictly prohibited. You must not use the material
for commercial purposes without first obtaining the express written authority of Granite CSD.
You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right notice
contained in the material. You may not use the material from the website in any manner or
for any purpose which is unlawful or in any manner which violates any right of Granite CSD.
To the extent allowed by law, you hereby indemnify Granite CSD against any and all claims
arising from the use by third parties of any material from the website that they have accessed
as a result of your reproduction, redistribution, alteration or transmission of that material in
contravention of these terms of use. Under the above wording, you indemnify Granite CSD
against certain claims, and this places various risks, liabilities, obligations and legal
responsibilities on you
Registration and cancellation
Some areas of the website may not be freely accessible. You may be asked to complete a
form of registration in order to access other areas of the website (the “restricted areas”). It
may be that a charge is payable to obtain access to the restricted areas, and if not, Granite
CSD reserves the right to introduce a charge for such access at any time. If such a charge is
introduced, Granite CSD may deny access to the restricted areas if you do not pay the
relevant charges and comply with any further registration requirements that Granite CSD
may, in their discretion, decide to introduce from time to time. When you register for access
to the restricted areas, you may be asked to provide certain personal details (“personal
data”). Granite CSD will only use the personal data in accordance with the privacy policy.
The website may use cookies to verify the identity of users who have registered to access the
restricted areas. For further information on this use of cookies, please see the privacy policy.
Granite CSD reserves the right to terminate your registration to the restricted areas and to
restrict your access to the website without notice at any time, provided that, to the extent that
the exercise of such right affects your ability to receive or access any information, features or
contents for which you have paid or are required to pay any consideration, Granite CSD will
use its reasonable endeavours to exercise such right on notice to you. You may cancel your
registration with the website at any time by sending an email to info@granitecsd.co.za.
Operation of the website
Granite CSD reserves the right to suspend or terminate the operation of the website at any
time for the purposes of support and maintenance or to update the information contained on
the website. Granite CSD is not obliged to give any notice of such termination or suspension.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer
Granite CSD endeavours to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the website and the content,
materials and products included and available on the website, but because of the possibility of
human and mechanical error as well as other factors, to the extent allowed by law, Granite
CSD does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any other way
guarantee the availability, truth, accuracy, completeness or reliability of such information or
that it is always up to date or that your access to the website will be uninterrupted or errorfree. Granite CSD does not, in publishing adverts or materials on the website, endorse any
products, advice or investment returns contained in these adverts, advice or investment
return. To the extent allowed by law, you must be satisfied that you may lawfully access the
website, read the pages and/or act upon the material contained in the pages, and Granite CSD
accepts no responsibility for your unauthorised access or actions in respect of these matters.
The above wording will limit and excludes obligations, liabilities and legal responsibilities of
Granite CSD, and also limits and excludes your rights and remedies and places various risks,
liabilities, obligations and legal responsibilities on you.
Linking to and from the website
The website may contain links to third-party websites. These linked websites are not under
the control of Granite CSD and, to the extent allowed by law, Granite CSD accepts no
responsibility for or liability arising from access to, or the information provided on, any
website which is linked from the website, or any hyperlink contained in a linked website. To
the extent allowed by law, you link to any such website entirely at your own risk and liability
and Granite CSD recommends that you read the privacy policy and any other legal
information contained on any third-party website to which you link. The above wording will
limit and excludes obligations, liabilities and legal responsibilities of Granite CSD, and also
limits and excludes your rights and remedies and places various risks, liabilities, obligations
and legal responsibilities on you. If you wish to establish a link to Granite CSD website, the
link must include Granite CSD web address “www.granitecsd.co.za”. The name to be used in
the link is “Granite CSD”. You may not use Granite CSD’s logo without permission, which
permission must be obtained in advance in writing from Granite CSD info@granitecsd.co.za.
You may not provide a link to Granite CSD financial portal that allows your users to by-pass
Granite CSD Financial Portal’s requirement for each individual visitor to register on their
first visit and to login on subsequent visits. If you do, however, want to provide seamless
access for your users to the information in Granite CSD Financial Portal then contact one of
Granite CSD data vendors who provide this service. Should you require assistance in this
process please contact Granite CSD info@granitecsd.co.za. Neither this website nor any of its
pages may be included in any other website. Instead, a link to the website is required at all
times. You may not frame the website without the prior written consent of Granite CSD. The
fact that the Website contains a link to or from a third party website does not necessarily
imply that there is any affiliation between Granite CSD and the third party website, nor that
Granite CSD or its officers or employees endorse the third party website. The linking website
may not in any way imply that Granite CSD or any of its officers or employees recommend
or endorse any of the linked site products or services. In terms of section 4(2) of the Financial
Markets Act, No 19 of 2012, it is an offence to behave in a manner which suggests or implies
that there is some connection between a person and an exchange where no such connection in
fact exists. Granite CSD reserves the right to withdraw any permission granted, whether
tacitly, verbally or in writing, to link to the website, at any time if it is deemed by Granite
CSD to be in the best interest of Granite CSD.
Copyright and trademarks
The works of authorship contained in the website, including, but not limited to, all designs,
trademarks, logos, data, text and images, whether registered or unregistered, are the
intellectual property of Granite CSD, its affiliates or third parties who have supplied
information to Granite CSD and are protected by South African and international intellectual
property laws and conventions. Granite CSD reserves the right to take legal action in respect
of any reproduction, copying, distribution, framing, uploading to a third party, publication,
adaptation, broadcast, public performance or other use or communication to the public of the
information contained on the website without the prior written consent of Granite CSD. You
are not permitted to use any of the trademarks displayed on the website without the prior
written consent of Granite CSD or the third party that owns the trademark.
Comments and feedback
If you have any questions or comments about the Website and would like to contact Granite
CSD, please email info@granitecsd.co.za. Granite CSD values your views, comments, ideas,
suggestions and feedback disclosed, submitted or offered by you on, by, or in connection
with, your use of the Website or any discussion forums on the Website (“Submissions”), but
Granite CSD shall not be obliged to respond to, maintain or compensate you in any way
whatsoever for your Submissions. By disclosing, submitting or offering, your Submissions on
the Website, you agree to and hereby do grant, and you represent and warrant that you have
the right to grant, Granite CSD a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable,
unrestricted, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable license, with the right to sub-license, to
use, copy, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display and distribute such
Submissions, and to sell, modify, create derivative works from and/or to incorporate such
Submissions into other works in any form, medium or technology, whether not known or
hereafter developed, in each case, without compensation to you. When disclosing, submitting,
offering or posting Submissions to the Website, you agree to do so in a responsible and
ethical manner, having regard to the following guidelines (“Submission Guidelines”): – You
are solely responsible for any Submission and other material that you submit to, publish or
display on, the Website and the views expressed therein are your individual views and do not
reflect the views of Granite CSD; You may not provide any Submission that falsely expresses
or implies that such Submission or material is sponsored or endorsed by Granite CSD; You
may not post any Submission that infringes, misappropriates or violates the intellectual
property, publicity, privacy or other rights of any party or that is subject to any restrictions, or
impose any obligations, on the use or further distribution thereof; You further agree that you
will not post Submissions that are (i) abusive, harassing, stalking, threatening or attacking
others; (ii) defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence; (iii) hateful language
targeting race/ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality or political beliefs; (iv) fraudulent,
deceptive, misleading or unlawful; (v) trolling (posting of inflammatory or off-topic
messages with the primary intent of provoking an emotional response) or otherwise deliberate
disrupting normal on-topic; (vi); spamming in nature; (vii) upload files that contain viruses or
programs that could damage the operation of other people’s computers; (viii) commercial
solicitation or solicitation of donations; (ix) link baiting (embedding a link in your post to
draw traffic to your own site). Granite CSD may at any time, without prior notice and its sole
discretion, remove any Submission, block any access to the Website or take any other
appropriate action against any person who violates the Terms of use in general and the
Submission Guidelines in particular. To the extent allowed by law, you hereby indemnify
Granite CSD against any and all claims arising from your Submission. The above wording
will limit and excludes obligations, liabilities and legal responsibilities of Granite CSD, and
also you indemnify Granite CSD against certain claims and limit and exclude your rights and
remedies and this places various risks, liabilities, obligations and legal responsibilities on
you.
Privacy Policy
Granite CSD takes the privacy of its users seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the
privacy of our users while providing a personalised and valuable service. Granite CSD’s
Privacy Policy, which is accessible by clicking on this link, is expressly incorporated by
reference into these Terms of use and forms part of these Terms of use, explains the data
processing practices of Granite CSD insofar as it relates to the Website. We have reasonable
security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and interception by third parties
of the information under our control, but, to the extent allowed by law, Granite CSD assumes
no liability for any damages you may suffer as a result of interception, alteration or misuse of
information transmitted over the Internet. Please see our Privacy Policy for further details.
The above wording will limit and excludes obligations, liabilities and legal responsibilities of
Granite CSD, and also limits and excludes your rights and remedies and places various risks,
liabilities, obligations and legal responsibilities on you.
Applicable Law
This Website is created, hosted, maintained and controlled in the Republic of South Africa
and as such you agree that the laws of the Republic of South Africa and the jurisdiction of the
South African courts govern these Terms of use, any disclaimers, copyright and use
statements contained in the Website, and any legal matter resulting from the use or inability
to use this Website, without giving effect to any principle of conflict of laws.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Granite CSD may seek recourse in any jurisdiction
worldwide in order to restrain the unlawful use of any of the material contained in the
Website.
Changes to these terms of use and the website.
To the extent allowed by law, Granite CSD may update these Terms of use from time to time
and you are responsible for periodically reviewing the most current version on the Website.
To the extent allowed by law, your continued use of the Website will be deemed your
conclusive acceptance of the updated Terms of use. Granite CSD reserves the right to change
or delete any information, features or contents of the pages of the Website at any time and
without notice. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section headed “Change to these terms
of use and the website”, to the extent that any such change or deletion relates to any
information, features or contents for which you have paid or are required to pay any
consideration, Granite CSD will use its reasonable endeavours to exercise this right on notice
to you.
Consumer Protection Act
If these Terms of use and/or any goods and/or services provided under these Terms of use are
regulated by the Consumer Protection Act No 68 of 2008, as amended, replaced or re-enacted
from time to time (“Consumer Protection Act”), it is not intended that any provision of these
Terms of use contravenes any provision of the Consumer Protection Act and therefore all
provisions of these Terms of use must be treated as being qualified, if necessary, to ensure
that the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act are complied with. Nothing in these
Terms of use does or purports to limit or exempt Granite CSD from liability for any loss
directly or indirectly attributable to the gross negligence of Granite CSD or any person acting
for or controlled by Granite CSD where the law does not allow this and this clause also does
not require you to assume the risk or liability for this kind of loss where the law does not
allow this.
