Terms & Conditions

ON-LINE POLICY

The OK Franchise Division [1] reserves the right to change these Terms of Use of the OK FOODS Website at any time. The modified Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon posting and you agree to the new posted Terms of Use by continuing your use of the OK FOODS Website. You are responsible for staying informed of any changes. If you do not agree with the modified Terms of Use, your only remedy is to discontinue using the OK FOODS Website.

This site was created to be informative, useful, educational and fun. Accordingly, we will permit you to download or photocopy material displayed on this site for your non-commercial personal use, provided that our copyright and other proprietary notices are prominently displayed on such materials. However, you may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post or otherwise use the content of this website or links thereto or therefrom for public or commercial purposes, without the prior written permission from the OK Franchise Division.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This site is owned by the OK Franchise Division and any of the images, text, audio, video or other comments is copyrighted by the OK Franchise Division and may only be used in the manner provided for in these Terms and Conditions.

The OK FOODS Website contains advertisements, logos, trademarks, service marks and other intellectual property, which is the property of the OK Franchise Division or has been licensed by the OK Franchise Division and may not be used for any purpose without the express prior written agreement of the OK Franchise Division.

These terms and conditions may change at any time. You will be required to comply with such revisions and therefore should periodically visit this section to review the current terms and conditions to which you are bound.

DISCLAIMERS 

The OK Franchise Division will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of your access to or use of this site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on this site is provided to you “as is,” without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Further, the OK Franchise Division does not warrant that this site or any and all servers that make it available are free of computer “viruses”, destructive/malicious code or software.

Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, associates, consultants shall not be liable for, and are hereby indemnified by you against, any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive loss or damages of whatsoever kind or cause arising out of your use of this website or the information contained on this website or your inability to use this website or any online facility or service offered to you.

Some of the services or products may not be available to you because of the manner or locations in which the products are sold or distributed. As a result, we cannot make any claim that the information in the site is appropriate for all OK Store locations or that the product described on the OK Foods Website is available for purchase at all geographic locations in South Africa.

If interested in franchise information, please refer to the Franchise section of this website.

USE OF COMMUNICATIONS

Any communications or information you transmit to this site will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy. In general, such information should not be considered by you to be confidential or proprietary. While we welcome your comments and feedback with respect to this site or any of our services or products, we are not seeking any unsolicited ideas, suggestions or materials related to the development, design, manufacture or marketing of our products. If you send us any proposed ideas or other such information, it will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential and it will become the sole and exclusive property of the OK Franchise Division and may be used by the OK Franchise Division for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation. We may share personally identifiable information that is submitted by you with other divisions within the Shoprite group, which group is companies or divisions related to Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd due to common control or ownership.

CONTENT ACCURACY

Any comments uploaded by users or any experts are their opinions alone and do not necessarily represent the views, opinions, beliefs or values of the OK Franchise Division.

All reasonable steps are taken to ensure that the information on the OK FOODS Website is accurate and up-to-date. However, we do not warrant that the content or information displayed is always accurate, complete and/or current.

MARKETING


We send out various newsletters and other marketing material. You are free to unsubscribe from any marketing material at any stage.

PRIVACY POLICY 

The OK Franchise Division is sensitive to the privacy concerns of visitors to its websites. The purpose of this General Online Privacy Policy is to describe what types of personal information we collect from visitors to OK FOODS Website.

As a general policy, no personal information is collected automatically about visitors to this site. However, as with most sites, certain non-personal information is recorded by the standard operation of our server(s) (“Cookie” technology). Such information may include: the name of the ISP from which you access the internet, the date and time you accessed the site, the internet address of the website from which you enter our site and where you go after you leave our site. This information is used to measure and monitor the use of our site and to improve its content.

Data which would personally identify you becomes known, to us, only when voluntarily submitted.

If you voluntarily provide us with any such information, we use that information for the purpose of providing the services, information or articles you requested. Some of the information voluntarily provided as part of your reply to any offers communicated on our website may be provided to third party vendors for processing. Unfortunately, we cannot always exercise control over their use of information.

We will not use your e-mail address for any purpose other than possibly responding to a message you’ve sent.

We will take reasonable steps to keep all information as secure as possible against unauthorized access and use.

We are especially interested in protecting the interests of children. We believe that parents have the responsibility to supervise their children’s on-line activities. However, we will not actively seek any demographic information from children nor will we disclose any personally identifiable information regarding children to third parties. We however receive information from the user via an online platform and can only identify such user as a child from the information submitted by the user and can therefore not give any assurances that we will be able distinguish whether a user is a child or an adult.

[1] OK Franchise Division is a division of Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 1929/001817/07