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Terms & Conditions

This website (accessed at https://mensa.org.za), to which these terms of use apply, is owned and operated by Mensa South Africa.

Please read these terms of use carefully, together with the Mensa South Africa privacy policy. By accessing and using the website you are agreeing to be bound by these terms of use. If you do not accept these terms of use then you must not continue to use the website.

Mensa South Africa may alter these terms of use at any time and we recommend that you review these terms of use regularly to ensure that you are happy to accept any modifications. We will notify you here if any changes have been made.

Access to the website and to all the content and features available within it may be modified, suspended, withdrawn or discontinued at any time and without any prior notice or explanation.

All enquiries and communications regarding the use of this website should be addressed to The Website Manager at the address below.

Use of this website is subject to the following terms:

The content and design of this website is subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights owned by Mensa South Africa or used under license from third parties. All such rights must be respected.

Reproduction of this website, or any part of it, in any form is prohibited except that you may: 1. print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal use; and 2. copy the content to individual third parties for their personal information, provided that you acknowledge the website as the source of the material and you inform the third party or parties that these terms apply and they agree to comply with them.

For the avoidance of doubt, you may not incorporate any content or material from the website into any other work or publication in any form whatsoever without the express written consent of one of the directors of Mensa South Africa. Furthermore, no copying for any business or commercial use is allowed.

The information contained on this website (including any guides, surveys, articles or reports) is compiled and/or made available in good faith and reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that it is accurate and up to date. However, Mensa South Africa gives no representation or warranty in respect of such information and all such representations and warranties, express or implied, are excluded.

We believe, but do not warrant, that the content of this website and any downloads are virus free. We recommend that you carry out your own virus checks.

Where information published on the website is supplied by third parties, this does not signify that Mensa South Africa controls or endorses such content, or accepts responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of the information.

Users are not permitted to republish or copy any content from the members area of the site in any medium.

Where links to other external websites are published on this website, this is not intended to signify that Mensa South Africa has reviewed or endorses such websites and/or their content and Mensa South Africa accepts no responsibility for the content of any linked website. The use of any links to these websites is entirely at your own risk and it is your responsibility to check and comply with the terms and conditions of any linked websites visited.

We are happy to consider requests for external links to be created to this website, but no such links may be created without the prior written consent of a director of Mensa South Africa.

You agree to use this website responsibly. You will not use this website for any unlawful purpose and will not supply, post or publish any information that is discriminatory, defamatory, obscene or offensive, or in any other way illegal or unlawful. All information you provide will be true, accurate, complete and up to date and will not mislead or be likely to mislead Mensa South Africa or any third party for which the information is intended.

You will take reasonable steps to ensure that all information and data files you supply, post or publish to the website are free of viruses, engines, routines or any form of malicious coding and you will not attempt in any way to damage, disrupt, modify or otherwise interfere with the proper and intended operation of this website.

Mensa South Africa may terminate or suspend your use of the website at any time and without warning if you are in breach, or if we have reasonable grounds to believe that you are in breach, of any of the terms of use in this document.

Your access to any or all of the site areas may be revoked by Mensa South Africa at any time without warning or explanation.

Mensa South Africa excludes liability to the fullest extent permitted by law for any loss or damage howsoever arising out of the use of this website or the reliance upon any content published, posted or supplied on this website.

However, nothing in the above shall exclude Mensa South Africa’s liability (if any) for fraud, for personal injury or death caused by Mensa South Africa’ negligence, or for any other matter which it would be illegal to exclude or attempt to exclude.

These terms of use and your use of this website are subject to the laws of South Africa and the courts of South Africa shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute so arising.

The headings contained in these terms and conditions are for convenience only and do not affect their interpretation.

If any of the terms of use is found to be invalid, illegal or otherwise unenforceable by a judicial or other competent authority, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions which will remain in full force and effect. If any provision of these terms of use is held to be invalid, illegal or otherwise unenforceable but would be valid, legal or enforceable if some part of the provision were deleted or severed, the provision in question will be deleted or severed to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal and enforceable.