Terms and Conditions

Welcome to Thinking SME!

Thinking SME is a platform that connects people in different industries, to communicate and build businesses. The terms are here to cover Thinking SME and its users, which use the platform to benefit companies and individuals without going against the conditions set out.

The terms govern the use of the Thinking SME platform and other future technology developed and platform developments and releases by Thinking SME and its team.

Thinking SME is a platform created for individuals who currently have ownership, manage, or work for SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises), we do not charge our users for using the Thinking SME platform. Businesses and organizations pay us a fee to show you advertising for their products or services. By using the Thinking SME platform and its products, you agree and permit us to show you ads for their product or services.

We do not sell or distribute your personal information to any advertisers, and we shall not share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address, or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Our advertising is not targeted and directed to every user who uses the platform.

These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

 

Copyright notice

Copyright (c) 2017 – 2020 Thinking SME

Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

• We, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
• all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material/content on our website are reserved.

 

Permission to use website

You may:

• view pages from our website in a web browser;
• stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and
• use our website services by means of a web browser.

Except as expressly permitted by the above or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes or define purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.

Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

• republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
• sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
• show any material from our website in public;
• exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
• redistribute material from our website.

Notwithstanding the above mentioned, you may redistribute our newsletter in print or electronic form to any person.

We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website [during server maintenance or when we update the website]. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website. (Legal action will be taken upon anyone who does not comply with the above)

 

Feeds

Subject to your acceptance of these terms and conditions, we grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable license to display content from our feeds in unmodified form on any non-commercial website owned and operated by you. 

It is a condition of this license that you include a credit for us and hyperlink to our website on each web page where our feed content is published (in such form as we may specify from time to time, or if we do not specify any particular form, in a reasonable form.)

We may revoke any license relating to our feeds or feed content at any time, with or without notice.

 

Misuse of website

You must not:

• use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
• use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
• hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
• circumvent any authentication or security system or processes on or relating to our website;
• use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, malicious computer software;
• impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity, and processing capacity);
• decrypt, or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
• conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without express written consent;
• access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
• use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
• violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
• use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing, and direct mailing); or
• do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies, or other persons entities.

You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete, and non-misleading.

 

Registration and Accounts

To be eligible for an account on our website, you must be a physical person who holds a valid identity card from the country in which you reside. (these checks can be made without prior notice to the user who registered the account)

You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send you.

You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account.

You must not use any other person’s account to access the website unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.

 

User login details

If you register for an account with our website, you will be required to register with the necessary information used to set up an account and profile with your details. You will need to accept these terms and conditions upon the use of the ThinkingSME platform.

Your user account must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in this document and rules about your content; you must not use your account or user identification for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

You may not falsely impersonate somebody else and create an account on this platform.

You must keep your password confidential.

You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such failure.

 

Cancellation and suspension of account

We may:

• Suspend your account;
• cancel your account; and/or
• edit your account details,

at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.

We will usually cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of (18 months).

You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on your profile settings.

 

Social Networking

Registered user will have access to such additional features on our website as we may from time to time determine, which may include but not limited:

• facilities to complete a detailed personal profile on the website, to publish that profile on the website, and to restrict the publication of that profile to particular groups and individuals registered on the website;
• facilities to create groups, manage groups that you have created, join and leave groups, and share information amongst group members;
• the facility to send private messages via the website to particular groups or individuals registered on the website; and
• the facility to post and publish text and media to the website.

You acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for the behavior of our users, either on or off the website, and we cannot guarantee that any information provided by a user is true, accurate, complete, current and not misleading, you will not hold us liable in respect of any loss or damage arising out of any user behavior or user information.

You agree to the publication of posts relating to you, by others, on our website; you acknowledge that such posts may be critical or defamatory or otherwise unlawful; you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such posts, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such posts.

 

Personal Profiles

All information that you supply as part of a personal profile on the website must be true, accurate, current, complete, and non-misleading.

You must keep your personal profile on our website up to date.

Personal profile information must also comply with the provisions of rules about your content.

 

Our rights to use your content

In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software, and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via our website.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media or reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website or reproduce, store and, with specific consent, publish you content on and in relation to this website.

You grant us the right to sub-license the rights licensed in this section.

You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed in this section.

 

Rules about your content

ThinkingSME is not responsible for any loss of content on the platform posted and created by any user.

The content which is posted by any user is that of the users’ content; ThinkingSME will not be held responsible for any material which does not follow the rules set out in the terms and conditions.

All content will be lawful and non-discriminatory to any user, organization, country, or person.

We have the right to remove any content which is unfit for use on our platform.

 

Report Abuse

If you find any content or profile which may be unlawful to this platform, you will need to direct your complaints to [email protected]. 

We take these reports seriously, and without hesitation, if you are found to be misleading in your report, further action will be taken.

 

Limited Warranties

We hold the rights to discontinue the website at any time; we have no warranties over the information and content posted onto the website, we will remove and delete all data from the website if we discontinue this platform.

The information will be stored and protected with ThinkingSME.

 

Indemnity

ThinkingSME, its platform, and its technology will not be held responsible for any type of injury or death for any user who has a registered account on www.thinkingsme.com.

 

breaches of these terms and conditions

If any user who has a registered account breaches these terms, legal action will be taken against them within the country they reside based on the laws and regulations in their residing country.

 

Trade Marks

ThinkingSME owns all the rights to any content uploaded and trademarked with the ThinkingSME brand.

Any user who posts any content with any third party branding will be held responsible for any legal action based on the content with that branding, which has not been given the consent of that company or person.

 

Competitor Terms

Due to this being a business platform, the extent of competition on the platform is large, which is why no deformation of brands or businesses is allowed on this platform, honesty, and accurate factual information is permitted to an extent.

 

Updating of Variations

The terms and conditions of this platform are updated with no prior consent to the user; all users will are notified by any new updates made on our terms and conditions.

 

Our Details

ThinkingSME

[email protected]

South Africa

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Privacy Policy

Thinking SME operates the www.thinkingsme.com website, which provides the SERVICE.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the Thinking SME website.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at www.thinkingsme.com unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

 

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

Your business information will be needed to complete the setup of your profile.

 

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us, which is called Log Data.

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

 

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that is commonly used as a unique anonymous identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service.

You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

 

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate our Service;
• To provide the Service on our behalf;
• To perform Service-related services; or
• To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

 

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information; thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

 

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this

from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.

 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

[email protected]

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