Terms Of Use

Important Notice:

Use of FreeCrochetPatterns™ web site currently located at www.freecrochetpatterns.club constitutes the following:

  1. You, the User, acknowledge and understand that by accessing and using this web site, you agree to these terms of use.
  2. Your use of this site and any of the services offered on this web site will be subject to the most current version of these terms of use posted on the site at the time of such use.
  3. When you subscribe to or utilize the services offered by us on this web site, you are entering into a legally binding and enforceable agreement with us and you are acknowledging that you have read, understood and accept these terms of use.
  4. When you subscribe to or utilize the services offered by us on this web site, you warrant that you are 18 or over, alternatively that you have your parents’ or legal guardians’ authorisation, consent and permission to use the services, participate in our activities and to be bound by these terms and conditions.
  5. If you do not accept these terms of use, you may not use any of the services available via this site. If however, you agree to these terms unconditionally, you will be eligible to be a User of this site.
  6. We may change any of these terms from time to time without further notice. Such changes will take effect as and when published. Therefore, you should keep up-to-date with their content and read these terms of use at all times prior to using this site since the then current version of the terms will apply to your use. By utilizing any of the services offered on this site or concluding any transaction via this site, you indicate that you have done so.

Should you have any questions regarding this site’s terms of use, please send an e-mail to us at online@freecrochetpatterns.club

Part A: General Information and Terms

  1. General Information

For your convenience, we have listed below some general information about ourselves:

  1. Definitions

In these Terms of Use:

    • Account means your subscription account for the use of our services;
    • Content means any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, comments, ideas, feedback, suggestions and the tags contained on this web site;
    • Contributor Guidelines means our guidelines for making content contributions to this web site, which is set out here;
    • Privacy Policy means our privacy policy;
    • Terms of Use means the terms and conditions set out herein;
    • User means any User of this web site, including any advertiser, subscriber, blogger, member, contributor or other User of the services offered here;
    • We, us and our means Curograph (Pty) Ltd (and, unless the context indicates otherwise, its owners, employees, suppliers, internet service providers, agents and affiliates);
    • You mean a User of this website;
    • The singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
    • Hyperlinks, which are not operational, will not in any way detract from the validity and interpretation of the Terms;
  1. General Conditions of Use for this Web Site
  1. In order to make full use of this website, you are required to register an Account with us. Your Account will allow you to use the member’s only pages, where you will be able to, amongst other, create a profile, submit or update resource listings, and submit calendar events.
  2. You are required to choose a User name and a password to register an Account. You are responsible for keeping your User name and password secret. You will be required to enter your Username and password every time you want to use your Account. You indemnify us from and hold us harmless against any loss or damage suffered or liability incurred arising from your failure to keep your account details (such as User names, passwords and access codes) secure or from you permitting anyone else to use your subscription account with us. You accept that you will be liable for all data submitted and transactions concluded on your subscription account.
  3. To create an Account you must be a natural person. If you are under the age of 18 we require your parent or legal guardian to read and accept these terms of use and to consent to your use of our services and your participation in the activities offered on our members only pages before you use any of our services or participate in the activities offered on our members only pages. We may require your parent or legal guardian to complete our Parental Consent Form available on request from online@freecrochetpatterns.club to confirm such acceptance prior to allowing you use our services or to participate in activities offered on our members-only pages.
  4. The information that you or your parent/guardian supply to us with registration of your Account will be subject to our Privacy Policy.
  5. You agree to use this site in accordance with these terms of use, and all laws, regulations and codes of conduct (including self-regulatory) applicable to you and your use of the Internet and the services provided to you on this site, including our Contributor Guidelines. In particular, you agree to use this site only for lawful purposes and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of or enjoyment of this site by any third party. Furthermore you agree not to use the site in a manner that would bring us, our business and/or any of our affiliates into disrepute.
  6. Please be aware that the Content on this web site, including without limitation, as may be found in the blogs and comment sections of the web site, does not amount to professional advice of any kind, be it legal, professional, medical, financial, personal or otherwise, and we recommend Users seek their own advice from a professional in their area. If you choose to rely on such Content you do so entirely at your own risk and you accept that we will have no liability to you in this regard. You acknowledge that Content submitted to this web site by other Users do not necessarily represent our views and that we have not authorized nor endorsed such Content. We do not endorse any events, products or services posted, promoted and/or listed by Users on our site and our display of such events, services or products should not be construed as any form of endorsement thereof. All arrangements regarding such events, products and services are to be made directly with the relevant User and are made at your own risk and we, our subsidiaries, officers and employees accept no liability regarding any event, service or product advertised, supplied or otherwise promoted on this site by any third party or any arrangements made in respect thereof, or otherwise incurred in connection with any such events, products or services.
  7. You agree not to use our web site for any unlawful purpose, and, specifically, you agree not to post or transfer to our web site (nor include in any message sent to our web site) any material that is unlawful or violates any third party’s rights or which is obscene, misleading, inaccurate, defamatory, illegal, in breach of any copyright or other intellectual property right, or damaging to data, software or the performance of our or any other parties’ computer system. You agree to indemnify us in respect of any liabilities, losses, expenses, or other costs whatsoever incurred as a result of a breach of your obligation hereunder, including, but not limited to, any claims made against us by any third party pursuant to your breach.
  8. We have to protect our business and secure our systems. Consequently, you agree that we may intercept and monitor any communication that you may send to or receive via our web site to the maximum extent allowed by law and you understand that we may use, publish and disclose such communications for any lawful purpose. Monitoring may include (without limitation) the filtering of incoming and outgoing electronic data messages to identify, limit and/or prevent the transmission of unlawful or otherwise undesirable material or Content.
  9. We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, without notice to remove any material you have submitted to our web site and/or to suspend and/or terminate your subscription, access and/or use of any or all of the services and/or this site at any time without notice, and we will probably do so if you act in breach of these terms.
  10. You acknowledge that the ownership in any intellectual property rights (including without limitation, copyright and patent rights) in the components and features of this site belongs to us, excluding any data, materials, comments, ideas, feedback or suggestions specifically submitted by Users, which will remain vested in such Users. You acknowledge that we also own any intellectual property rights in the compilations, collective works and derivative works created by us which may incorporate the Content of Users. Accordingly, no part of this site (including its source HTML code) may be used, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner other than for the purposes of utilizing this site, meaning that you may only display it on your computer screen and print it out on your printer for the sole purpose of viewing its Content. Framing of the content on this site without our written consent is expressly prohibited. If you submit any Content to our website, you grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide and royalty-free license to use, compile, display, publish, publicly perform, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, lease, adapt, modify and promote such Content in any manner of form, which license will survive termination of any contractual arrangement between us.
  11. You may only use the trademarks featured in our site for the purpose of displaying this site on your computer screen or printing out this site on your printer for the purpose of viewing same. Any other use of the trademarks without prior written consent is strictly prohibited.
  12. We, our subsidiaries, officers and employees do not make any warranties, representations or undertakings, express or implied, about the content of this site or the services provided on it or about the content of any other website which may be referred to or accessed by hypertext link from this site, and we do not endorse or approve the content of such third party websites. In particular, we disclaim all warranties implied by law and we do not make any representations as to the accuracy, suitability, non-infringement, availability, timeliness, security, completeness or reliability of information contained on this site and we shall not be bound in any manner whatsoever by the information contained on this web site, including errors and omissions. Furthermore, we do not represent that this site is free of viruses or bugs or anything else, which may have a harmful effect on any technology or that the site is compatible with all computer systems and browsers. Any material and/or information downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of this web site is thus done at the User’s sole discretion and risk and the User is solely responsible for any damage to its computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.
  13. We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will compile and use the information which you give to us to provide you with services and personalize your use and visits of this site. We may also use such information to inform you, the User, about changes in the services we offer and/or about features we think you would find of interest. By giving us this information, you consent to our use of it for these purposes and for the purposes outlined in our Privacy Policy, including for the purpose of processing your requests. For further information regarding our treatment of your personal information, you are referred to our Privacy Policy.
  14. You use our web site at your own risk. We exclude any and all liability that we, our subsidiaries, officers and employees may incur for any losses or claims arising from an inability to access this site or use a service on this site, or arising from any use of this site or reliance of the data obtained from or transmitted using this web site, to the fullest extent permissible by law, even if we, our subsidiaries, officers or employees were negligent or aware of the problem in advance. In no event will we, our subsidiaries, officers and/or employees be liable for any loss of profit, revenues, goodwill, opportunity, business, anticipated saving and/or other direct or indirect or consequential loss of any kind in statute, contract, delict (including negligence and gross negligence) or otherwise arising in connection with your use of this site, save where such liability cannot be excluded by applicable law.
  15. You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including attorneys’ fees on a party and own client scale, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these terms or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
  16. We also reserve the right, without notice and in our sole and absolute discretion, to make changes to any parts of the site inclusive of changes to these terms of use. It is your sole responsibility to review our terms of use on each occasion prior to making use of this site. If you continue to use this site after our amended terms of use has been posted on the web site, it will constitute a deemed acceptance of such amended terms of use. We specifically reserve the right at any time to change, suspend or discontinue without notice, any service component and/or feature of this web site.

Part B: Privacy Policy

  1. Introduction

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it contains important information about the use of any personal information which you provide to us. Your privacy is very important to us. We are therefore committed to protecting that privacy whenever personal information is requested from you. Provided it is reasonably possible, we will try to use or disclose your personal information only in the manner stated in this Privacy Policy. We do, however, reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, in which case the amended Privacy Policy will supersede and replace any previous policies with effect from the date on which it is posted on this website. Wherever possible, we will give you notice of any changes prior to their implementation. Please visit this Privacy Policy regularly to familiarise yourself with the latest version and to understand what we can do with your personal information. This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms and Conditions of use for this website.

  1. Personal Information

Personal information refers to all information about you as an identifiable individual, including (but not limited to) your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and identity number, but for the purposes hereof will exclude all information that you submit to a publicly accessible section of our web site such as a blog, resource listing, calendar entry or comment forum. All information which you submit to a publicly accessible section of our web site may be collected, used and disclosed freely and will not be protected under this Privacy Policy. Your submission of information to such a publicly accessible section of our web site is thus at your own risk. For your protection we recommend that you do not disclose any sensitive personal information about yourself or anyone else on this web site, including information pertaining to your or anyone else’s mental or medical condition, criminal record, participation in court processes, employment, sexual activities or preferences, religious beliefs, political opinions, race or ethnic origin. Please be aware that such information could be abused by others.

  1. Your Consent

3.1. You do not have to give us personal information in order to visit or access the freely available sections of our web site. Some services on our web site may, however, be restricted to subscribers only (including but not limited to the placing of orders, promotional features and competitions). In order for you to use such subscriber services we will need some personal information about you. The information will be collected when you register with us or when you choose to use one of the subscriber services available via our web site. We may also collect information regarding your use of our web site to enable us to improve our services and to assess your compliance with the terms applicable to such use.

3.2. All your personal information so collected, will be stored, used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and you consent to such storage, use and disclosure when you subscribe to these subscriber services. If you are under the age of 18, we may also require the consent of your parent or legal guardian authorising you to submit personal information to us by way of our Parental Consent Form available on request from online@freecrochetpatterns.club .

  1. Personal Information Shared

4.1. We will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent, or if you are under 18 the consent of your parents or legal guardians, provided that by using our website and/or subscribing for any of our services, you provide your express and informed consent for us to disclose your personal information to third parties as follows

4.1.1. to third party companies employed by us to provide services for us, including for example, website hosting, administration, maintenance and development. These companies require access to your personal information to perform their functions and not for any other purposes;

4.1.2. to transfer our customer database/s, including personal information contained therein, to any third party who acquires all or substantially all of the assets or shares in our company or our web site service whether by sale, merger, acquisition or otherwise;

4.1.3. to governmental agencies, exchanges and other regulatory or self-regulatory organisations if we are required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to

4.1.3.1. comply with the law or with any legal process;

4.1.3.2. protect and defend our rights and property or that of our customers and companies in our group;

4.1.3.3. prevent fraud or abuse, misuse or unauthorised use of our website; and/or

4.1.3.4. protect the personal safety or property of our customers or the public (if you provide false or deceptive information about yourself or misrepresent yourself as being someone else, we will disclose such information to the appropriate regulatory bodies and commercial entities); and

4.1.4 if applicable, to personalise your experience on our web site, to help you log on in future and to continue to use the web site, to reply to queries you might have, to provide you with support and to help us select services or materials for inclusion on our web site which may be of interest to you.

4.2. We reserve the right to share non-personal, non-individual information in aggregate form with third parties for business purposes, for example with advertisers on our website or business associates and partners. You will not be identifiable from such data as such. We are not responsible and cannot be held liable for the privacy practices of such third parties.

  1. Use of Your Personal Information

5.1. We and our commercial partners may use your personal data for the purposes of executing transactions concluded with you, for billing purposes or in order to serve relevant advertising to you. We may send you information, special offers, notices about upcoming events and advertising by email, through SMS, within our regular newsletters, through once-off promotional offers or by telephone.

5.2. We may also make available your personal information to our affiliates and business partners (who may be located outside South Africa) in order to enable them to offer goods and services that they think will interest you. By using our services and by submitting your personal details, you consent to this transfer.

5.3. We may receive information about you from reliable third parties and add it to our database. When we receive such information, we shall use it to improve the personalisation of our service.

5.4. If you do not want to receive the information as set out above then please send an e-mail to us at online@freecrochetpatterns.club or contact us telephonically.

  1. Feedback and Complaints

If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, or if you have a complaint about how we are using your data, then please write to us or send an email to us at online@freecrochetpatterns.club

  1. Competitions

7.1. When you enter a competition or other promotional feature, we will require your name, telephone number, postal address and/or e-mail address so that we can notify you if you have won. We will require your physical address to deliver any prizes you win. We may use this personal data in the same way as explained in clauses 4 and 5 above.

  1. Information Protection

We may protect personal information by establishing appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the personal information we collect from you. This helps prevent unauthorised access, maintains data accuracy and ensures that the personal information is used correctly. In order to carry out these security procedures, we may sometimes ask for proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.

  1. Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information that is deposited by our computer server when you visit our website which is stored on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser. On revisiting the website, our computer server will recognise the cookies, giving us information about your last visit. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to prevent automatic acceptance. If you choose not to receive cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

  1. Data Profiles

10.1 We may also utilise a personal profile page, which will enable you to update your personal information. This will allow us to maintain accurate and up-to-date personal data. You will have the right to require its correction or removal from our records at any time. If you wish to be deleted from our database entirely, then please send an email to us at online@freecrochetpatterns.club stating just that.

10.2 If you want to update any of your personal information held by us, you can either make certain changes online by amending your account details (if enabled) or you can send an e-mail detailing the required amendments to online@freecrochetpatterns.club . If your account details are password protected, you can help to preserve your privacy by never sharing your password with anyone else.

  1. IP Addresses

Every time you connect to our website we store web server logs which show your IP address (the unique number which your machine uses when it is connected to the Internet); what you looked at; whether the page request was successful or not, and which browser you used to view the pages. The use of this data is strictly for statistical purposes and personalisation purposes only. This helps us understand which areas of the site are of particular interest and also which pages are not being requested. It also tells us how many hits and page requests we get.

  1. Links

Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we are not responsible and cannot be held liable for the privacy practices of third party websites or the manner in which they use cookies and advise you to read the privacy statements of each website you visit which collects personal information.

Part C: Contributor Guidelines

To be a part of our community and engage with other Users on an ongoing basis, there are two non-negotiable rules we enforce to protect Users and ourselves:

Rule 1: We require and encourage our Users to share their opinions openly but with due consideration for others. In other words, we want Users to express their opinions freely but without being abusive. While we appreciate constructive criticism we expect all Users to treat others with respect. Users must also be at least 18 years old or have the consent of their parent’s or legal guardians to post comments, chat or blog on this site. We may require you to provide us with proof of your age and, if you are under 18, with the consent of your parents or guardians by way of a duly completed Parental Consent Form available on request from online@freecrochetpatterns.club

Rule 2: We refuse to publish and will remove any content we think is unacceptable. We call everything that is published on our web site content, including blogs, comments and responses, as well as your personal and business profile information, messages, poll responses, video, text, images etc. If it is available on our site, it is considered content. And while we encourage you to share your views, expand your network and make the connections that count, we must insist that your content not include or be linked to any of the following, which we will probably consider to be unacceptable:

  • Hate speech, racism, discrimination, or content that is libellous, defamatory, false, demeaning or misleading or misrepresents another person – particularly if obvious or deliberate.
  • Any writings that include swear words or obscene or inappropriate language.
  • Activities that constitutes stalking, harassment or abuse, or is considered threatening towards a person or other people.
  • Anything that infringes someone else’s intellectual property rights (including copyright, trademark, trade secret or patent) or amounts to an unauthorised disclosure of confidential information or trade secret. If you quote someone in the content you provide, it’s up to you to credit the original author and publication.
  • Anything that contains unsolicited advertising or marketing links or material – particularly if such links or material is unrelated to the particular discussion.
  • Anything else, the publication of which could cause emotional, moral, physical or mental harm to you or other Users, including sensitive personal information about you or other Users, such us medical conditions, criminal records, participation in court processes, employment related information, information relating to sexual activities or preferences, religious beliefs, political opinions, race and ethnic origin.

We generally decide what’s acceptable or not on an item-by-item basis, but we are also in no way limiting ourselves to only evaluating the things mentioned above. We reserve the right to edit and/or remove content, and alter the unacceptable list, as and when required without notifying Users. To a large degree, we will be relying on you to help us evaluate the content on the site. If you become aware of something that you feel is in breach of any or all of the above, please contact us directly on 082 635 3282 or email us at online@freecrochetpatterns.club

Part D: Complaints and General

  1. We aim to provide you with a quality service. If, however, you feel that you have cause to complain, you can contact us at the email address given in section 1 of Part A above. We will try to do our best to resolve any problems that arise. Please provide us with the following as part of your complaint:
  • Your full names, physical address, telephone number and email address
  • The location and description of the feature or component of our web site which is the cause of your complaint
  • The reason for your complaint including any rights that you allege to be infringed by such feature or component
  • The actions you would like us to take to remedy the problem
  • A statement confirming that you are making the complaint in good faith
  • A statement confirming that the information you are providing to us is to the best of your knowledge true and correct
  • Please incorporate your signature into the complaint
  1. Use of this web site is subject to the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Western Cape High Court, Cape Town provided that we may, in our discretion, approach any Magistrate’s Court of competent jurisdiction over your person to adjudicate on any dispute arising from or in connection with these terms of use, and you consent thereto. You agree to accept service of legal process at the addresses you may provide to us when you use or subscribe to our web site services.
  1. These terms of use and the terms incorporated herein by reference constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to this site, the services offered here and any products and services acquired through this site, and supersede any previous agreements, negotiations, representations, arrangements, undertaking or proposals whether written or oral concerning the subject matter hereof.
  1. Our failure to enforce any provision of this agreement will not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. In the event that a portion of this agreement is held unenforceable or invalid by any competent authority, the unenforceable portion will be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties, failing which it will be severed from the remainder of the provisions which will remain of full force and effect to the maximum extent permitted by law.
  1. You will not have the right to subcontract, cede, delegate, transfer and assign any of your rights, obligations or duties hereunder to any other person and/or entity without our prior written consent. We will have the right to cede, delegate, transfer and assign our rights, obligations and duties hereunder to any person and/or entity, and you hereby consent to such cession, delegation, assignment and transfer.
  2. We will be excused any failure to perform or delay in performance of any or all of our obligations hereunder as a result of an event of force majeure, including without limitation acts of God (including flood, fire, earthquake or other similar events), riots, war, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes, epidemics, failure of telecommunications systems, failure of the world wide web, any outages of the internet or connection or communications thereto, governmental restraints and act(s) of legislature or any other cause outside our reasonable control.