Terms and Conditions

The Citrus Academy is a non-profit company that was established by the Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa to enable human resource development in the Southern African citrus industry.

Access to and use of citruscommunities.org.za is subject to the following terms:

By using citruscommunities.org.za you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of citruscommunities.org.za. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms, please do not access and/or use citruscommunities.org.za.

Citrus Academy may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by Citrus Academy. Your continued use of citruscommunities.org.za after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of the Citrus Communities website.

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use citruscommunities.org.za content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any citruscommunities.org.za content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of citruscommunities.org.za content requires the prior written permission of Citrus Academy.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The material on citruscommunities.org.za is provided for your general information only, without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Whilst the information on citruscommunities.org.za has been given in good faith, and every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, under no circumstances will Citrus Academy be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):

  • loss of data;
  • loss of revenue or anticipated profits;
  • loss of business;
  • loss of opportunity;
  • loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
  • losses suffered by third parties;
  • any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of citruscommunities.org.za regardless of the form of action.

Citrus Academy makes no representations or warranties whatsoever about the content of any other website which you may access by hypertext link through this website. When you access any other website by means of a link from this website, you should understand that your access to that other website is independent of citruscommunities.org.za. Citrus Academy has no control over the content of other websites, nor does Citrus Academy in any way endorse or approve the content of that website.

Citrus Academy does not warrant that functions contained in citruscommunities.org.za content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or citruscommunities.org.za or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. Citrus Academy has the right to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of citruscommunities.org.za, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use, at any time.

Contributions to the Citrus Communities website

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to citruscommunities.org.za (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Citrus Academy a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in our Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant Citrus Academy the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to citruscommunities.org.za. The information provided in your contribution will only be used for industry purposes, and all regulations as stipulated in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, hereafter referred to as the POPI Act, will be adhered to.

By submitting your contribution to citruscommunities.org.za, you warrant that your contribution is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Citrus Academy for all the purposes specified above.

By submitting your contribution to citruscommunities.org.za you also warrant that it is not defamatory, and does not infringe any law, and you indemnify Citrus Academy against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Citrus Academy as a result of your breach of the above.

By submitting your contribution to citruscommunities.org.za, you warrant that all information provided adheres to the POPI Act, and further indemnifies Citrus Academy from any liability that may be incurred as a result of your breach of the above, and claims from any third parties.

Furthermore, you waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on citruscommunities.org.za and the purposes specified above.