These Terms of Use describe rules for visitors to the HLC Medical (Pty) website. This website is owned and operated by HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd. HLC Consulting T/A HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd is the name we use to refer to our whole business, and any of the companies that it controls, such as its subsidiaries and affiliates. When we use the words, we or our, we mean HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd.
These Terms of Use were last updated on 01 September 2023. We may change these Terms of Use at any time. Please review the Terms of Use each time you visit the website. By using this website, it means you accept the most recent version of the Terms of Use.
About the information on this website
This website is funded and operated by HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd. The information on this website is for your general information only. Information you read on this website cannot replace the relationship that you have with your healthcare professional. HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd does not practice medicine or provide medical services or advice and the information on this website should not be considered medical advice. You should always talk to your healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment.
Health information changes quickly. Therefore, it is always best to confirm information with your healthcare professional.
This website contains information about products and therapies authorized in South Africa and is intended to be viewed by residents of South Africa. If you live outside South Africa, you may see information on this website about products or therapies that are not available or authorized in your country.
Our Copyrights and Trademarks
The materials on this website belong to or are licensed to us. The materials are protected by copyright laws. There are some important rules about copying these materials. You may e-mail, download, or print copies of the materials on this website, but only for your personal, non-commercial use. When you e-mail, download, or print a copy of the materials on this website, you must also include all copyright and other notices that are in the materials, including the copyright notice on the bottom of the page.
We also own the names we use for our products and services on this website, and these names are protected foreign trademark laws. An ® following a name on our website indicates that the trademark has been registered in the United States. A ™ following a name on our website indicates that it is an unregistered trademark. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
There may be special rules for the use of materials provided on certain parts of this website. These special rules will be posted near the materials.
If you use the materials or trademarks on this website in a way that is not clearly allowed by these Terms of Use, you are violating your agreement with us and may be violating copyright, trademark, and other laws. In that case, we automatically revoke your permission to use this website. Title to the materials remains with us or with the authors of the materials contained on this website. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
Links to this Website and Use of HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd marks
You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, and revocable license to link to this website. HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time. If HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd revokes this license, you agree to remove and disable all your links to this website immediately.
You agree not to present the link to this website in such a way that it is associated with advertising or appears to be an endorsement of any organization, product, or service. You agree that the link will not appear on a website that a reasonable person may consider obscene, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, or malicious. Under no circumstances may you 'frame' this website or any of its content or copy portions of this website to a server. You agree not to display or use the HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd logo or trademark in any manner without our prior written permission.
Links to other Websites
This website may contain links to websites not operated by HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd. We provide these links for your convenience, but we do not review, control, or monitor the materials on any other websites. We are not responsible for the performance of those websites or for your business dealings with them. Your use of other websites is subject to the terms of use of those websites, including the privacy policies of those websites.
These websites may contain information about used of HLC Medical products or therapies that have not been approved in the country where you reside. We do not control or endorse this type of information.
Your feedback, comments and ideas
While we are pleased to receive feedback, comments and ideas from visitors to this website, we want you to understand that any information that you submit through this website will be considered non-personal, non-confidential, and non-proprietary (other than personal information, as that term is defined in our Privacy Statement, and which will be subject to applicable privacy laws, in particular the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013). If you transmit any ideas, information, concepts, know-how or techniques or materials to us through this website, you hereby grant HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd an unrestricted, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute them in any medium, and agree that HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd is free to use them for any purpose.
No warranties. All content on this website is provided to you on an “AS IS“ and “As available” basis. HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd hereby disclaims all warranties of any kind, representations or warranties that use of this website will be uninterrupted or error-free. You are responsible for taking all precautions necessary to ensure that any content you may obtain from this website is free of viruses and any other potentially destructive computer code.
Limitation of liability. You agree that neither HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd nor any person or company associated with HLC Medical shall be liable for any damage resulting from your use or inability to use this website or the materials on this website. This protection covers claims based on warranty, contract, delict, strict liability and any other legal theory. This protection covers HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd, its officers, directors, employees, agents, consultants, and suppliers mentioned on this website. This protection covers all losses including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary and punitive damages, personal injury/wrongful death, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption.
Other rules about this website
In addition to the rules in these Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement, you may be subject to additional terms that may apply when you access services or materials on certain areas in this website, such as by following a link from this website. Please read our Privacy Statement to learn how we protect and use information that we gather through this website.
If you violate these Terms of Use or the Privacy Statement in a way that causes harm to others, you agree to hold HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd harmless against any liability for that harm.
By using this website, you agree that the only proper jurisdiction and venue for any dispute with HLC Medical, or in any way relating to your use of this website, is in the courts of the Republic of South Africa. You further agree and consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in these courts in connection with any dispute involving HLC Medical (Pty) Ltd or its affiliates, employees, officers, directors, agents, or suppliers. These Terms of Use are governed by the internal substantive laws of the Republic of South Africa without respect to its conflict of laws principles.
