TERMS AND CONDITIONS
GENERAL
The Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport
& Culture Development, (hereinafter: the
Authority) offers the information on this on-line site/internet site
(hereinafter: the service) pursuant to the following terms.
The term "User" as follows shall
mean each person who establishes or accesses a connection to the service.
COPYRIGHT
According to the law of copyright in
Botswana and pursuant to international treaties, copyright in the office's
publications, including those provided by the service, belong to the Republic
of Botswana. These rights apply, inter alia, to text. Pictures, drawings, maps,
audio tracts, video tracts, graphics and program applications (hereinafter: the
protected material), unless stated explicitly that the copyright in the
protected material belongs to another party.
User may make "fair use" of the
protected material as set out under law. Such fair use includes quoting from
the protected material in a reasonable manner.
When quoting from the protected material,
User must attribute the source of the quotation, whether it is the office or a
third party. User may not alter, modify or in any other fashion change the
protected material, and may not do any other act which might diminish the value
of the protected material in a manner which would cast aspersion on the creator
of the protected material.
Subject to the law of copyright, User may
not copy, redistribute, retransmit or publish protected material, without the
prior written consent of the office.
LIABILITY
The
service is provided to the public "as is".
The
Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport & Culture Development shall not be
held liable for the suitability of the service to User's needs. Nor shall the Ministry
be held liable for any error or mistake found in the material provided by the
service.
The Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport
& Culture Development shall not be held liable for any changes made in the
material provided by the service if such changes were made by User or by a
third party. User alone
shall bear all responsibility for the way in which he/she uses the service.
The Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport
& Culture Development shall not be held liable for any loss or damage
caused to User or third parties arising directly or indirectly from the use of
the service, including loss or damage due to the use of applications that were
downloaded directly through the service or that were activated by using the
service, including ActiveX, JavaScript and Java.
For the purposes of the above terms, the
Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport & Culture Development includes its
employees and agents.
LINKS
This site contains links to external
sites. The following conditions shall apply to the use of these links, without
derogating from the other conditions in these “Terms of Use”.
The links are solely for the convenience
of User.
Unless otherwise stipulated in this site,
no legal or commercial relationship exists between the office and external
sites not maintained by the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport & Culture
Development (third party sites), and the office has no control over the content
of said third party sites.
The Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport
& Culture Development is not responsible for the content of third-party
sites.
Links to third party sites shall not be
construed as an endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the Republic of
Botswana or by the office of said third party sites, including documents and
other materials to be found therein, of the operators of said sites or of
products offered on said sites.
At the time each link was included in this
site, it was found that the material in the linked-to site was relevant to the
purposes of this service, and that the link itself was functional. However, it
is possible that with the passing of time, the contents of the linked-to sites
have changed. If User feels that material on a linked-to site is not fitting,
or if User finds that a link is no longer operational, he/she is requested to
inform the Webmaster of such. In addition, if User feels that there is an
additional site relevant to the subject matter of this service, he/she is
requested to inform the Webmaster of such.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Personal information given to the office
through this service will be kept confidential in accordance with The Privacy
Law of the Republic of Botswana.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Unless otherwise stated, the Ministry of
Youth Empowerment, Sport & Culture Development owns the intellectual
property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the
license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching
purposes only, from the website for your own personal use, subject to the
restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
·
Republish material from this website (including republication on another
website);
·
sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
·
reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website
for a commercial purpose;
·
edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
·
redistribute material from this website
ACCEPTABLE USE
You must not
use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or
impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way
which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any
unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not
use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or
distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware,
computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other
malicious computer software.
You must not
conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including
without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting)
on or in relation to this website.
You must not
use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not
use this website for any purposes related to marketing.
RESTRICTED ACCESS
Access to
certain areas of this website is restricted. the Ministry of Youth Empowerment,
Sport & Culture Development reserves the right to restrict access to areas
of this website, or indeed this entire website.
If you are
provided with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas
of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID
and password are kept confidential.
The Ministry
of Youth Empowerment, Sport & Culture Development may disable your user ID
and password in its sole discretion without notice or explanation.
QUERIES
Any questions about this service, or about
the activities of the office may be sent directly to the office by e-mail, at
the following address:
Answers will be given as soon as possible,
but no later than 14 days from receipt of the query.