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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Who can enter into a valid and binding contract with no assistance? The same principles apply to both online and traditional agreements. This is important because it determines the pool of your customers. If you cannot contract with a person, they can't really be a customer of ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Many South African technology businesses do not have an international strategy. However, many of them see South Africa as a good place to develop and test their idea or technology before taking it overseas and scaling it. "Hit the big-time" in other words. Many South African technology ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
This is not expressly prohibited by any law, but may possibly amount to a contravention of the provisions of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978.
Broadly speaking, copyright is the right given to the owner of a copyrighted work not to have that work copied (reproduced) without authorisation. Without law in ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Online gambling is not permissible under the current legislation, but will soon be once the National Gambling Amendment Bill gets enacted. Currently gambling in South Africa is regulated concurrently by national and provincial legislation. The National Gambling Act 7 of 2004 ("the National Gambling Act") governs all gambling activities in ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
If you are looking for a new brand name for a product, service or business it makes sense to do some checks as part of the process. There is no point coming up with a fantastic name if others are also using it and you are not going to be ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Starting or running an online store is more complex than it appears. There are various aspects and different issues to consider. However, there is always a limited amount of time and budget. For this reason, the legal considerations often get ignored or put on the to-do list.
By online ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Terms, policies, disclaimers, rules and notices that appear on web sites are essentially agreements between the business who owns the web site and each user of the web site or customer.
They will be binding if the business has done what is reasonably sufficient in order to bring the existence of ...
Posted in Agreement Templates, Documents, Subscriber, Web Sites, eCommerce | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
How will it help you?
Make money by ensuring that your customers have your trust and confidence - customers will only buy online if they trust you and your online store. Many consumers are still reluctant to buy online.
Manage your risks. For example, what happens if one of your ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Broadly speaking, there are 2 types of privacy policies:
A Customer Privacy Policy which deals with all Customer PI that you hold; and
An Employee Privacy Policy which deals with all Employee PI that you hold.
This article deals with Customer Privacy Policies.
If you collect personal information (PI) about your customers (or any ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Is the advertising or selling of financial services products to consumers or to businesses via the Internet regulated, and if so by whom and in what manner?
Financial service providers need to register with the Financial services Board from which ...
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