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1 Definitions<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cannual return\u201d means an annual return provided for in terms of section 173 of the Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973), Close Corporations Act, 1984 (Act No. 69 of 1984) and the Companies Act, 2008 (Act No. 71 of 2008);<\/p>\n \u201cbrowser\u201d means a computer program which allows a person to surf the internet and access websites;<\/p>\n \u201cCIPC\u201d means the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission;<\/p>\n \u201cCIPC account\u201d means the virtual account created by CIPC for a customer on the CIPC website following registration by such customer via the \u201cCustomer Registration\u201d facility;<\/p>\n \u201cCIPC Bank Account\u201d means the bank account held by CIPC at ABSA Bank;<\/p>\n \u201cCIPC website\u201d means all the sites on the World Wide Web controlled and\/or owned by CIPC;<\/p>\n \u201cContent\u201d means, includes but not limited to, software and material;<\/p>\n \u201cconsent\u201d means any voluntary, specific, and informed expression of will in terms of which permission is given for the processing of personal information.<\/p>\n \u201ccustomer\u201d means a visitor who is \u2013 \u201cData\u201d means electronic and manual representations of information in any form;<\/p>\n \u201cD<\/em>ata subject\u201d means the person (includes natural and juristic person) to whom personal information relates<\/p>\n \u201cdiscontinue service\u201d means the withdrawal of the offering or functionality of a service in part or in total;<\/p>\n \u201cECT\u201d means the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 (Act No. 25 of 2002);<\/p>\n \u201cFee\u201d means a fee which has been determined in regulations under the various acts under administration by CIPC which is indicated on the CIPC website. Provided that in the event of a possible discrepancy between fees quoted on such website and the relevant regulations, due to possible human or software error, the fee concerned as stipulated in the regulations will prevail;<\/p>\n \u201cForums\u201d means, including but not limited to, bulletin boards, chat rooms and other public areas found on the CIPC website;<\/p>\n \u201cInternet use\u201d means both external clients and internal officials who have access and use internet facilities;<\/p>\n \u201cmaterial\u201d means, including but not limited to, text, submissions, images, audio and\/or video in whole or in part;<\/p>\n \u201cOffice hours\u201d means period between 07:30 and 16:00 from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays, weekends and CIPC recess periods;<\/p>\n \u201cPersonal information\u201d means information relating to an\u00a0<\/span>identifiable, living, natural person<\/span>, and where it is applicable, an\u00a0<\/span>identifiable, existing juristic person,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>including, but not limited to-<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 Information relating to race, gender, marital status, national ethnic or social origin, colour, age, physical or mental health, disability, religion, language and birth of the person;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 Information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person;<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0\u00a0 Any\u00a0<\/span>identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number<\/span>, location information, online identifier or other particular assignment to the person;<\/p>\n (d)\u00a0 The\u00a0<\/span>biometric information<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of the person;<\/p>\n (e)\u00a0 The personal opinions, views or preferences of the person;<\/p>\n (f)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Correspondence sent by the person that is explicitly or implicitly of a private or confidential nature;<\/p>\n (g)\u00a0 The views or opinions of another individual about the person; and<\/p>\n The name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure<\/p>\n \u201cprivacy statement\u201d indicates how CIPC will respect the privacy of its website users;<\/p>\n \u201cprocessing\u201d means any operation or activity or any set of operations whether or not by automatic means, concerning personal information, including-<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 The collection, receipt, recording, organisation, collation (compare), storage, updating or modification, retrieval, alteration, consultation or use;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 Dissemination (spread) by means of transmission, distribution or making available in any other form; or<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0\u00a0 Merging, linking as well as restriction, degradation, erasure or destruction of information;<\/p>\n \u201cpublic body\u201d means<\/p>\n (d)\u00a0 Any department of state or administration in the national or provincial sphere of government; or<\/p>\n (e)\u00a0 Any other functionary or institution when-<\/p>\n (i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exercising a public power or performing a public function in terms of any legislation;<\/p>\n \u201cpublic record\u201d means a record that is accessible in the public domain and which is\u00a0 in the possession of or under the control of a public body, whether or not it was created by that public body;\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPOPIA\u201d means the Protection of Personal Act, 2013 (Act No 4 of 2013);<\/p>\n \u201cservice\u201d includes but are not limited to, the disclosing of information or submission of an application or form via any of the authorised CIPC transaction or enquiry channels for which a fee may or not be\u00a0 payable;<\/p>\n \u201csignature\u201d means any traditional or electronic signature authorised by CIPC in terms of the Companies Act, 71 of 2008 which include but is not limited to:<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 Biometrics e.g. fingerprint verification;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 One time pins; or<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0 Customer code login;<\/p>\n \u201csoftware\u201d means, including but not limited to, any images or files incorporated in or generated by the software or data accompanying such software;<\/p>\n \u201csubmissions\u201d means, including but not limited to, notes, images, creative materials, ideas, suggestions, concepts, communication, documents, applications, or forms including any data, questions, comments and other information submitted via any of CIPC authorised channels including but not limited to its website via transmission by electronic mail, electronic data or otherwise; and<\/p>\n \u201cvisitor\u201d means a person who uses and\/or accesses computer software and\/or material via any of the CIPC channels including but limited to the website.<\/p>\n 2 Service conditions and delivery<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A service is available anywhere in the world with the following provisos:<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The CIPC website is accessible;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Payment Gateway can process the card transaction; and<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The method of delivery is online or to an email address.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC strives to make the CIPC website available all the time, but there are eventualities beyond CIPC control that has an impact on the availability of the website.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC services provided through partners like banks and SST sites are dependent on the availability of such partner(s).<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Disclosures and submissions requiring no intervention from CIPC officials can be requested or submitted at any time when the relevant CIPC channel is available.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Submissions or requests that require intervention by CIPC Officials may also be submitted at any time that the relevant CIPC channel is available, but internal processing will only be performed during office hours. For purposes of calculating the service delivery service, the first day of submission is not counted. The service delivery count only commences the first working day after the day of the submission.<\/p>\n (6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All services rendered by CIPC are exempted from Value Added Tax (VAT).<\/p>\n (7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The delivery mechanism and delivery events are as follow:<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online disclosure:<\/p>\n (i)\u00a0 \u00a0Disclosures are done online and can send an email copy to the customer\u2019s email address, (if supplied), as an option.<\/p>\n (i)\u00a0 \u00a0The service is considered rendered when the disclosure report has been successfully written to the customer\u2019s browser.<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Electronic submission of forms:<\/p>\n CIPC will attempt to send an email containing the result of an electronically submitted document or form (in the format of a letter and possibly a certificate) to the customer if a valid email address is available on the system.<\/p>\n (8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC reserves the right to :\u2013<\/p>\n (a) Introduce new services;<\/p>\n (b) Discontinue services;<\/p>\n (c) Restrict services rendered over the Internet to selected customers or selected groups of customers; and<\/p>\n (d) Refrain from making certain services available on the Internet at its sole discretion without prior notice to a visitor or customer.<\/p>\n (9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When requesting services such as the maintenance of company or close corporation registration details, CIPC reserves the right to refuse the customer access to a specific service if the customer does not have a mandate and\/or properly registered at CIPC to perform the action.<\/p>\n (10)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC reserves the right to amend its definition of a properly registered mandate and to apply different criteria in deriving, determining or establishing the mandate, depending on the type of service requested. 3<\/strong>\u00a0Hyperlinks, framing, spiders and crawlers<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0 No person, business or website may \u2013<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 link to any page on this site without the prior written permission of CIPC;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 frame this site or any of the pages on this site in any way whatsoever; or<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 use any technology to search and gain any information from this site without the prior written permission of CIPC.<\/p>\n 4 Intellectual Property and restrictions on use<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The CIPC website consists of content which is derived entirely or in part from content supplied by CIPC.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The content referred to in subparagraph (1) is protected under applicable South African Intellectual Property Acts, Regulations and International Treaties and Conventions.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer may not reproduce, duplicate, publish, modify, copy, download, upload in any manner, post, broadcast or transmit, reverse engineer or disenable, display, or distribute or in any way exploit any of the contents that being software and\/or material.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Any information, content or material on CIPC website and\/or channels can be used, transmitted or distributed for private or personal purposes.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notwithstanding subparagraph (4), the use of information, content or material from CIPC website or channels for business and\/or commercial purposes must be used and\/or distributed only if such use, transmission and\/or distribution is part of the service provision to client(s), and use, distribution and\/or transmission of such information, content and\/or material must be limited to that specified client(s).<\/p>\n (6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Requests for permission regarding use of any contents which fall within the ambit of the limitations stated above can be made by contacting CIPC in writing at:<\/p>\n LEGAL SERVICES (7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer is also strictly prohibited from creating works and\/or software materials derived from or which are based on the contents found on this site.<\/p>\n (8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The prohibition referred to in subparagraph (6) applies regardless of whether the content is sold, negotiated or given away and\/or further alienated in any manner whatsoever. (Section 15 of POPIA).<\/p>\n (9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The website contains material which is owned by or licensed to CIPC. This material includes, but not limited to, the content, design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited in terms of the South African copyright and trade mark laws, international trade marks and copyright laws and conventions.<\/p>\n (10)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All trademarks reproduced on the CIPC website, which are not the property of, or licensed to CIPC, are acknowledged accordingly.<\/p>\n 6 Submissions \/ bulletin boards<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Any submission shall be deemed to be and remain the exclusive property of CIPC, and all visitors and customers agree to this stipulation.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The contents found in various forums held on the CIPC website, shall be deemed to remain the exclusive property of CIPC.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC has the right, but not the obligation to monitor and review submissions submitted by visitors or customers in the forums.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC shall not be responsible for any of the content of those forums.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC further reserves the right to delete, move or edit submissions that, in its exclusive discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene or in violation of any Copyright or Trade Mark laws or otherwise objectionable. 7 Rules of conduct for the visitor and customer<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer with the inclusion, but not the limitation, of the definition, agrees that he\/she will not transmit submissions to the CIPC website that –<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 \u00a0 Use any of the forums for illegal purposes;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 \u00a0 Are for spamming and\/or malicious intent;<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0 \u00a0 Restrict or inhibit any other visitor or customer from using and enjoying the forums;<\/p>\n (d)\u00a0 \u00a0 Are unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, profane pornographic and\/or allow for indecent information that constitutes a criminal offence and\/or gives rise to a civil liability claim or otherwise violates any local, national or international law;<\/p>\n (e)\u00a0 \u00a0 Violate any Intellectual Property rights of any other person by the submission of the content to CIPC website through the forums or other avenues, which allow for such submissions. A visitor or customer by the transmission of content in any manner whatsoever, represents to CIPC that they are the rightful owner of such content transmitted or that the visitor or customer has obtained permission from the rightful owners to submit such content transmitted;<\/p>\n (f)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Contain viruses or other harmful content; or<\/p>\n (g)\u00a0 \u00a0 Are intended for commercial purposes, contain marketing or promotional materials or are intended to solicit donations.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer agrees that he\/she shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of Copyrights, Trade Marks and other proprietary rights or any other damages resulting from such a submission.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer further indemnifies and holds CIPC harmless against all claims for any damages whatsoever arising from the use of the CIPC website.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is a criminal offence in terms of the Companies Act, 71 of 2008 to submit any information that is misleading or has the intention to defraud the CIPC or any other person.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Customers who use services of the CIPC may be held liable for the information and content submitted by them on behalf of themselves or their clients and can therefore be held criminally liable by the CIPC if the information or content is found to be misleading, fraudulent or has the intention to cause harm to others.<\/p>\n 8 Damages, warranty, indemnity<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer expressly agrees that the use of the CIPC website or channel is at his\/her sole risk.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC does not guarantee or warrant that:-<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the CIPC website will be uninterrupted;<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the CIPC website and\/or its content will be default free and that the defects will be corrected;<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 provisions stated within any Act, will get preference above any content as reflected on the CIPC website;<\/p>\n (d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the information, content or material on CIPC website and channels is accurate, and free of errors;<\/p>\n (e)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the servers that make the content available are free from viruses and other harmful content; or<\/p>\n (f)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 any merchandise provided through the CIPC website.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The CIPC website is provided “AS IS” and on an “IS AVAILABLE” basis, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality, non-infringement, title, security and compatibility.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neither CIPC nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timelines, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website. A customer using the CIPC website acknowledges that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and therefore expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer acknowledges and confirms CIPC indemnity to, including but not limited to, indirect, direct, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from the use of or inability to use CIPC sites.<\/p>\n (6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer acknowledges that the provisions of this paragraph shall apply to all the contents of the CIPC website.<\/p>\n (7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The disclaimer of liability applies to damages or injury, including but not limited to, indirect, direct, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of data or of profits, whether in breach of contract, tortuous action, negligence, or under any other cause of action.<\/p>\n (8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If any of the terms and conditions of this agreement should be deemed to be unlawful, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms and conditions are intended to be effective than to the extent only and within the jurisdiction in which that term and condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from this agreement and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.<\/p>\n 5 Access and availability of service and links<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC contains links to other related Internet sites.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No inference or representation can be made implying that CIPC is connected with, operates or controls those linked websites.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whether or not those linked sites are in fact affiliated with CIPC, CIPC is not responsible for the content on the aforesaid sites.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The linked sites are for a visitor or customer\u2019s convenience only and such visitor or customer\u2019s access thereto is at his\/her own risk.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When visiting linked sites, a visitor or customer must refer to that linked site\u2019s individual terms of use and cannot rely on the terms of this agreement.<\/p>\n 9 General<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This agreement, the terms, conditions and operating rules for the CIPC website, constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The agreement and the terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Any dispute arising from these terms and conditions shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts and\/or Tribunals of the Republic of South Africa.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The paragraph headings used herein are for convenience only and shall be of no legal consequence.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC may at any time revise these terms and conditions by updating the postings.<\/p>\n (6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer is bound by such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this agreement to review the current terms and conditions to which he\/she is bound.<\/p>\n (7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC shall have the exclusive right to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the CIPC website without prior notice to the visitor or customer. 10 Agreement to and termination of agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The use of or access to these CIPC websites and\/or channels constitutes a visitor or customer\u2019s acceptance of terms and conditions hereof, which together with CIPC\u2019s Privacy Policy, are binding on such visitor or customer and takes effect on a date which such visitor or customer first makes use of, or access\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the CIPC channel or when clicking on the button confirming that he\/she has read the terms and conditions before logging into any channel.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0 \u00a0 By accessing and\/or making use of these CIPC websites and\/or channels, the visitor or customer provides his\/her voluntary, specific, and informed consent in terms of which permission is given for the processing of personal information.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If a visitor or customer does not accept all the terms and conditions in full, such visitor or customer must exit the site immediately and not make use of the website.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CIPC has the exclusive discretion to terminate the agreement at any time.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After a visitor or customer has exited the site as aforesaid such visitor or customer must destroy all content, whether materials or software, obtained from the site and all copies thereof.<\/p>\n (6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the event of a visitor or customer failing to exit the site as aforesaid CIPC has the right to claim any indirect, direct, incidental, special or punitive damages caused to CIPC from such visitor\u2019s or customer\u2019s unauthorised access and\/or use of the CIPC website.<\/p>\n (7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visitor or customer indemnifies CIPC against any claims for damages of whatsoever nature caused to another party by such visitor or customer unauthorised use and\/or access of the sites.<\/p>\n 11 Electronic Communication Legal Notice<\/strong><\/p>\n The email including attachments is confidential, may be privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient do not disclose, distribute or retain it, and please notify the sender immediately and then delete this email. Email is not necessarily secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. It is your responsibility to ensure that emails are virus-free. No one may conclude a contract on behalf of the CIPC via email without express written confirmation by a duly authorised representative of the CIPC. The CIPC accepts no responsibility for any loss or damages arising in any way from the use of this email as a means of communication. Views and opinions expressed in the email are those of the sender unless clearly stated otherwise.<\/p>\n 12 Conditions of use and access<\/strong><\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In order to make use of CIPC services, a person must register as a customer using the \u201cCustomer Registration\u201d facility on the CIPC website. (See business rules for customer registration process on the CIPC website\u00a0<\/span>www.cipc.co.za<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\/ Register as a customer.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A customer must ensure that all the details provided by him\/her for his\/her registration are true and correct at all times as CIPC shall not be liable for any expenses, costs or damages incurred as a result of incorrect details. These requirements may change from time to time and it is the responsibility of the customer to regularly update his\/her own customer information.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A customer is responsible for securing his\/her customer login password and such customer login password may not be disclosed to unauthorised persons, as such customer will be held responsible for all transactions performed with his\/her login and password. In cases where CIPC officials assist a customer in creating the login and password details, customers need to ensure that they keep record of that information.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A customer must immediately notify CIPC in writing of any unauthorised use of his\/her password or of any other breach of security.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When a person registers as a customer, he\/she consents to receiving communications from CIPC electronically.<\/p>\n
(a) Registered with the CIPC via the \u201c Customer Registration\u201c facility on the CIPC website; walk-in centres and partner offices; and
(b) Transacts with CIPC via the CIPC website; and
includes, but are not limited to, the special categories \u201ccustomers\u201d, \u201ccompany secretaries\u201d and \u201cbanks\u201d;<\/p>\n
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PO BOX 429
PRETORIA
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