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Terms of use and Privacy Policy

These are the terms and conditions for the use of the Special Investigating Unit website.

 These terms and conditions apply whenever you access this website. In these terms and conditions, when we say “website”, we mean the Special Investigating Unit Website, regardless of how you access it.

By using this website, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

The website strives to ensure that our material is as up to date and accurate as possible. However, the Special Investigating Unit website does not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material on this website to the extent permitted by law.

In other words, you must not rely on any statement without first taking specialist professional advice. We will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of using the material or any part of it.

We give no guarantee of any kind concerning the website or the material. In particular, we do not guarantee that the website or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect, such as running anti-virus software, as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to the website, we do not guarantee it. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

You can access other sites via links from the website. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

Please read our Privacy Notice and Copyright Licence. By using this site, you are deemed to have read and understood them.

These terms of use may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the website after the variation has been posted.

These terms of use are governed by South African law and South African courts.

Privacy Policy

The Special Investigating Unit website respects your privacy.

Some anonymous information about you is automatically collected by the website. This information may include: your browser type, access times, referring web site addresses and viewed pages. This information is collected to generate general aggregate statistics about the use of the Special Investigating Unit website and is used to improve our service.

Our website also uses a “cookie” to save your language preference. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programmes or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer.

No other information is collected by our website without your knowledge. We will not pass on any individual user details we may have obtained, automatically or with your knowledge, unless we have your prior consent. We only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our users and traffic patterns. We are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of third parties.