Legal Notice

1. Introduction

This is a general legal notice in relation to ASSA ABLOY Group (“ASSA ABLOY”) website. On this website, ASSA ABLOY provides online information. By accessing and using this site, you agree to be legally bound by and to comply with the terms and conditions set out in this Legal Notice.

If you register with this website, submit any material to the website or use any of the website services, you agree to these terms and conditions.

2. Copyright, Trademarks and terms of use

The contents of this site (the “Content”), including but not limited to text, graphics and images, trademarks, brands, logos and software are protected by Intellectual Property Rights Laws. The title to the Content shall not pass to you or to any other user of this site, and instead shall remain with ASSA ABLOY or a third party holding the title to the materials posted on this site.

ASSA ABLOY owns the names that are used for the company’s business and those of the company’s products and services mentioned in this site, and these names are protected by Intellectual Property Rights Laws. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

3. Permission to use website

You are authorized to:

a) view pages from this website in a web browser;

b) download pages from this website for caching in a web browser;

c) print pages from this website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;

Unauthorised use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. Whenever you e-mail, download, or print copies of the Content, you must also include all copyright and other notices that are included in the Content, including any copyright notices at the bottom of the page.

The Content may not be:

i. reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any natural or computer language, re-transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded, or otherwise), resold, or redistributed without the prior written consent of ASSA ABLOY.

ii. sold or modified or reproduced, displayed, publicly performed, distributed or otherwise used in any way for any public or commercial purpose; and

iii. you may not “frame” this site or any of the content therein, and you agree not to copy any portion of this site to a server; and

iv. you further agree not to display or use any ASSA ABLOY names, logos or trademarks in any manner without ASSA ABLOY’s prior written consent.

The use of the Content on any other website or in any other networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited, although you may provide HTML hyperlinks from your website to this site, subject to these terms of use. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, and revocable license to link to this site. You agree not to present any links to this site in such a way that they are associated with advertising or appear to be an endorsement of any organization, product, or service. You agree not to place links to this site on any websites that a reasonable person would consider obscene, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, or malicious. ASSA ABLOY reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time. If ASSA ABLOY revokes this license, you agree to remove and disable any and all of your links to this site immediately.

If you use the Content in a way that is not clearly allowed by these terms and conditions of use, you may be violating copyright, trademark, and other laws. If such is the case, ASSA ABLOY automatically revokes your permission to use this site, and ASSA ABLOY shall be entitled to request that you immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content. All rights not expressly granted by these terms and conditions are reserved.

ASSA ABLOY reserves the right to suspend or restrict access to this website, to areas of this website and/or to functionality upon this website. ASSA ABLOY may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when updating the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

You must not:

(a) use this website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b) use this website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of this website without this permission;

(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to this website;

(f) 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;

(g) use data collected from this website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities;

(h) do anything that interferes with the normal use of this website.

You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through this website, or in relation to this website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

4. Registration and accounts

You may register for an account with this website by completing and submitting the account registration form on this website and following the instructions provided on the website or e-mail

You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

You must not use any other person's account to access the website, unless you have that person's express permission to do so.

5. User login details

5.1 If you register for an account with this website, [you will be provided with] OR [you will be asked to choose] [a user ID and password].

5.2 You must comply with the content rules set out in Section 6.

5.3 You must keep your password confidential.

5.4 You must notify ASSA ABLOY in writing if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

5.5 You are responsible for any activity on this website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

6. Cancellation and suspension of account

6.1 ASSA ABLOY may:

(a) [suspend your account]; and/or

(b) [cancel your account];

at any time in its sole discretion with or without notice to you.

6.2 ASSA ABLOY will usually cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of 24 months.

6.3 You may cancel your account on this website using our contact page on the website.

7. Rules about your content

7.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means [all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files or any other information or data uploaded) that you submit to ASSA ABLOY through this website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, this website].

7.2 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

7.3 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

7.4 Your content, and the processing of your content by ASSA ABLOY in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libelous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(f) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(g) constitute spam;

(h) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(i) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

8. Links to other sites, advertisements

8.1 This site may contain links to third-party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by ASSA ABLOY of any content contained in or provided by such third-party websites. This site is not responsible for the content of linked third-party websites; we do not review, control, or monitor the materials on any third-party websites; and we do not make any representations regarding the content, accuracy, or legitimacy of materials on such third-party websites.

8.2 If you decide to access linked third-party websites from this site, you do so at your own risk. Your use of third-party websites is subject to the respective Terms and Conditions of Use for those third-party websites, including the respective Privacy Policies of those websites.

8.3 In the event this site elects to include advertisements by third parties, these advertisements may contain links to other websites. Unless otherwise specifically stated, this site does not endorse any product or make any representation regarding the content, accuracy, or legitimacy of any materials contained in, or linked to via, any advertisement on this site.

9. Limited warranties

9.1 Subject to any applicable law to the contrary, ASSA ABLOY does not warrant or represent:

(a) that the material on the website is up to date;

(b) that the website will operate without fault; or

9.2 Whilst every effort is taken to ensure information provided herein ASSA ABLOY does not warrant that the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website including, but not limited to, errors in pricing or description, other human errors, or errors created by the systems and software used by the website.

9.4 ASSA ABLOY does not warrant or represent that the products ordered via this website will necessarily be available and should the product no longer be available ASSA ABLOY will inform the purchaser and refund any monies paid.

9.5 ASSA ABLOY reserves the right to discontinue or alter any or all of this website services, and to stop publishing this website, at any time in its sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if ASSA ABLOY stops publishing the website.

9.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, ASSA ABLOY excludes all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, this website and the use of this website.

10. Limitations and exclusions of liability

10.1 Disclaimer

ASSA ABLOY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING OR RELYING UPON THIS SITE OR THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN OR PROVIDED BY THIS SITE. THEREFORE, YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

ASSA ABLOY PROVIDES THIS SITE AND THE CONTENT AND SERVICES HEREIN ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. ASSA ABLOY, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ASSA ABLOY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, CONTINUITY, OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS, OR COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE USE OF THIS SITE. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING ALL PRECAUTIONS NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT ANY CONTENT YOU MAY OBTAIN FROM THIS SITE IS FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR ANY OTHER POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE COMPUTER CODE.

Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

10.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 9 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 9; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

10.3 To the extent that this website and the information and services on this website are provided free of charge, ASSA ABLOY will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

10.4 ASSA ABLOY will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond its reasonable control.

10.5 ASSA ABLOY will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

10.6 ASSA ABLOY will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

10.7 ASSA ABLOY will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

11. Breaches of these terms and conditions

11.1 Without prejudice to its other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if ASSA ABLOY reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, it may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to this website;

11.2 Where ASSA ABLOY suspends or prohibits or blocks your access to this website or a part of this website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

12. Variation

12.1 ASSA ABLOY may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

12.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of this website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

13. Assignment

13.1 You hereby agree that ASSA ABLOY may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with its rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

13.2 You may not without this prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

14. Severability

14.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

14.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

15. Third party rights

15.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for this benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

15.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

16. Entire agreement

16.1 These terms and conditions, together with the privacy and cookies policies, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and ASSA ABLOY in relation to your use of this website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and ASSA ABLOY in relation to your use of this website.

17. Law and jurisdiction

17.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with South African law.

17.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.

18. ASSA ABLOY details

18.1 This website is owned and operated by ASSA ABLOY Limited on behalf of the ASSA ABLOY and Yale brands

18.2 ASSA ABLOY Limited is registered in South Africa under registration number 1971/008368/07, and its registered office is at 176 Progress Rd, Technikon Roodepoort 1725

18.3 ASSA ABLOY’s principal place of business is at 176 Progress Rd, Technikon Roodepoort 1725

18.4 You can contact us using the Contact Form

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