1. About These Terms
These terms apply when you use the Gauteng Climbing website, contact Gauteng Climbing, register interest in events, submit information through the website, or otherwise interact with our online services.
By using this website, you agree to use it lawfully, respectfully, and in a way that does not interfere with the site, its users, or Gauteng Climbing operations.
2. Who We Are
Gauteng Climbing is a Gauteng-based provincial climbing organisation supporting competitive climbing, clubs, athletes, events, officials, volunteers, and community development in South Africa.
References to "we", "us", and "our" mean Gauteng Climbing. References to "you" mean any visitor, member, parent, guardian, athlete, volunteer, club representative, official, or other person using the website.
3. Website Information
We work to keep website content accurate and current, including event, club, governance, news, and contact information. Some information may change after publication.
Website content is provided for general information and administration purposes. Official event rules, selection criteria, policies, entry requirements, and deadlines may be published separately and should be read carefully where they apply.
4. Events, Membership, and Participation
Participation in Gauteng Climbing activities may be subject to additional event rules, eligibility requirements, waivers, codes of conduct, safety requirements, venue rules, and federation policies.
Parents or guardians are responsible for submissions and consents relating to minors. We may refuse, suspend, or remove participation where required for safety, eligibility, disciplinary, operational, or legal reasons.
5. User Submissions
When you submit information through the website, you confirm that the information is accurate, that you have authority to provide it, and that it does not infringe the rights of another person.
You must not submit unlawful, harmful, misleading, abusive, discriminatory, defamatory, or malicious content. We may remove or disregard submissions that breach these terms or create operational, safety, legal, or reputational risk.
6. Intellectual Property
The website design, text, images, logos, graphics, documents, and other content are owned by Gauteng Climbing or used with permission, unless otherwise stated.
You may view, download, and share website content for personal, club, school, or non-commercial climbing community purposes, provided you do not misrepresent the content, remove attribution, or use it in a misleading way.
7. Acceptable Use
You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, admin systems, databases, user accounts, hosting infrastructure, or connected services.
You may not use automated scraping, probing, denial-of-service activity, malware, spam, or any other activity that could damage, overload, or compromise the website or its users.
8. Third-Party Links and Services
The website may link to clubs, venues, social platforms, payment providers, documents, federation bodies, or other third-party resources. These third parties operate independently from Gauteng Climbing.
We are not responsible for third-party websites, content, security, availability, fees, rules, or privacy practices. You should review the relevant third-party terms before using their services.
9. Availability and Changes
We may update, suspend, remove, or change website content, features, pages, forms, or services at any time.
We do not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, although we make reasonable efforts to operate it responsibly.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the extent allowed by South African law, Gauteng Climbing is not liable for losses arising from use of the website, reliance on website content, temporary unavailability, third-party services, or unauthorised access beyond our reasonable control.
Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded, including liability for intentional misconduct or any consumer rights that apply by law.
11. Privacy
Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. Please read it together with these terms, especially when submitting contact, membership, event, athlete, parent, guardian, official, volunteer, or club information.
12. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Any dispute relating to these terms or the website will be handled under South African law, unless a mandatory legal rule requires otherwise.
13. Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to info@gauteng-climbing.co.za.