Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the View My Fines platform.

Your consent

By using our platform, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes

If we decide to change these terms and conditions (including our privacy policy), we will post those changes on this website.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions, you may contact us via the contact form

Introduction

This website and any related applications is a product and service by ViewMyFines.co.za. The word “Tenant” will refer to any partner and/or subsidiary that uses this service to service their clients as a value-added product or refer any client to View My Fines. The word “Agent” will refer to any service provider and/or partner and/or subsidiary that works in conjunction with View My Fines to provide the services as discussed herein. View My Fines and this website offers a traffic fine liability discharge service and vehicle administration services. The products and services on this website is available to holders of a South African ID only.
The terms of service and conditions herein applies to all electronic services provided by View My Fines including websites and applications (Thus “service” hereinafter will refer to all websites and applications).

These terms and conditions govern your use of this service; by using this service, you accept these terms and conditions in full.

If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this service.

This service is integrated with third party service providers who are authorized to access information relating to road and traffic infringements issued by the relevant local issuing authority.

All fine information that is furnished to you is received by us from such service providers who in turn obtain it from the local issuing authorities.
All licensing and vehicle data is retrieved by us from third party service providers or agents.

As View My Fines is reliant on the information received by it from third parties, and has no way of verifying this information independently, View My Fines is not liable or responsible for inaccurate information received by service providers and/or agents.

General

You must be at least 18 years of age to use this service. By using this service and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

This website is governed by the laws of South Africa. The South African courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in regard to any dispute arising out of this service.

User License

Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on ViewMyFines.co.za’s web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
1. modify or copy the materials;
2. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
3. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on ViewMyFines.co.za’s web site;
4. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
5. transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.
This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by ViewMyFines.co.za at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

IP

Unless otherwise stated, View My Fines or persons related to it (as defined in the Companies Act, 2008) owns the intellectual property rights pertaining to this service and material in the service. Subject to any license granted as set out herein, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the service for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:

republish material from this service (including republication on another service);
sell, rent or sub-license material from the service;
show any material from the service in public;
reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this service for a commercial purpose;
edit or otherwise modify any material on the service; or
redistribute material from this service except for personal use or use within your organization if you are a juristic person.

Links

View My Fines has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by View My Fines of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user’s own risk.

USE

You must not use this service in any way that causes, or may cause:

damage to the website or application impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website or application; or
in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity

You must not use this service 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.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this service without View My Fines express written consent. You must not use this service to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications. You must not use this service for any purposes related to marketing without View My Fines express written consent. You may not use this service to collect fines and vehicle administration service data to perform these functions yourself.

View My Fines may at any time disable your user ID and password at its sole discretion without notice or explanation.

Privacy Policy and Information

View My Fines respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. We operate in compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act no 4 of 2013 and regulations.
This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of our privacy practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected online and how that information is utilized by us.

Certain pages on the website have been structured so that you can access the website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. However, should you wish to make full use of the website, you will be required to register and provide us with personal information and accordingly we have made this notice readily available on the home page of the website.
When you register on the website we need to collect certain personal information about you in order to provide you with the services you have requested. This information may include, but is not limited to: i) Name ii) Registration no or ID number; iii) Email Address iv) Contact Telephone Numbers.

Once you choose to register on the website and provide us with personal information, it will be used for the purposes of providing you with the services. We respect your privacy and undertake not to sell, rent or lease your personal information to others.

We will not disclose your personal information without your consent or as required by law enforcement action, subpoena or local law.

Certain non-personal information may be collected while you are using the website. This will comprise of data about usage and service operation that is not associated with a specific personal identity. View My Fines may collect and use this non-personal information to evaluate how the website is being used.

Personal data given to View My Fines may be transferred across provincial and national borders for the purposes of data consolidation, storage and simplified customer information management. Personal data given to View My Fines will be shared with Agents for purposes of providing the services to you. You confirm that you consent to the transfer and use of your personal information for these stated purposes.

Except as stated herein will not share personal information with any third parties without your permission, unless required by law enforcement action, subpoena, or local law. View My Fines will not use your personal information for a different purpose than the one stated when you provided your data.
View My Fines undertakes to take all reasonable measures to protect the information you provide.

Warranties

This service is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. View My Fines makes no representations or warranties in relation to this service or the information and materials provided on this service.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, View My Fines does not warrant that:

this service will be constantly available, or
available at all;
nothing on this service constitutes, or
is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

Limitations

In no event shall View My Fines or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on viewmyfines.co.za’s Internet site, even if View My Fines or a View My Fines authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

Liability

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY SINCE IT LIMITS THE LIABILITY OF VIEW MY FINES TO YOU. EACH OF THE SUBCLAUSES BELOW ONLY APPLIES TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. NOTHING HEREIN IS INTENDED TO LIMIT ANY RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY LIMITED

View My Fines will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of delict or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this service: for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

View My Fines will not be liable for any incorrect information and/or fine-data. View My Fines will not be liable for any loss or damages suffered by you due to fines that you are unaware of or which do not appear in any quotation or statement provided to you. View My Fines in no way guarantees complete and national coverage. View My Fines will not be liable for any act and/or omission by a Tenant and/or Agent.

These limitations of liability apply even if View My Fines has been expressly advised of the potential loss. By using this service, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in these terms and conditions are reasonable.

You accept that, View My Fines has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against View My Fines officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the service. You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in these terms and conditions will protect View My Fines officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors.

Without prejudice to View My Fines other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, View My Fines may take such action as they deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the service, prohibiting you from accessing the service, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the service, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the service and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Your sole and exclusive right and remedy in case of dissatisfaction with the service, or any other grievance in connection with your use of the service, shall be your termination and discontinuation of access to, or use of, the service.

Variation

View My Fines may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this service from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this service. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

View My Fines may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with View My Fines’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

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. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision 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.

Site Terms of Use Modifications

View My Fines may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this website, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

Fees, Payments and Discounts

View My Fines shall furnish you with a quotation reflecting a fixed amount which View My Fines will charge you to procure that your liability in respect of the fine with the relevant the local issuing authorities is discharged inclusive of the fine itself and the services provided by View My Fines to procure such discharge (“settlement amount”). The settlement amount quoted is valid for 7 days only. Once the quotation is accepted by you and the amount is paid by you to View My Fines, View My Fines undertakes to procure that your liability in respect of the fine in question is discharged. If the settlement amount is more or less than the actual cost incurred by View My Fines to procure that your liability in respect of the fine is discharged, then such shortfall or surplus, as the case may be, shall be for the cost or benefit of View My Fines. During the process of providing the services to procure such discharge, but prior to the actual discharge of your liability for the fine, a portion of the settlement amount, as determined by View My Fines acting reasonably, shall be deemed earned by View My Fines, as and when View My Fines completes each step in its process to procure such discharge. Notwithstanding any provision herein, any portion of the settlement amount not already earned as aforesaid, shall, upon discharge of your liability for the fine for any reason (whether through the services of View My Fines or by operation of law) be deemed fully earned by View My Fines.

By accepting the quotation and making payment of the settlement amount to View My Fines, you authorize a representative of View My Fines to act on your behalf in relation to the fine, including to communicate with any relevant person, and to deal with the fine in any manner which View My Fines deems fit for purposes of having your liability in respect of such fine discharged.

Payment of the settlement amount may be made via EFT into View My Fines bank account. The merchant outlet country at the time of presenting payment options to the cardholder is South Africa. Transaction currency is South African Rand.

No Admission of Guilt

View My Fines does not provide assistance with NAG fines. As you may be obliged to appear in court to determine the amount of a NAG fine, we suggest that you seek advice from an attorney.

Refunds

Upon written request within 24 hours, View My Fines will refund any settlement amount paid within 7 days of receipt by View My Fines provided that View My Fines has not yet take any steps to procure that your liability in respect of the fine in question is discharged.

For settlement amounts quoted by View My Fines in respect of fines issued under the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act, that include amounts attributable to penalties or enforcement fees, View My Fines will refund the Client an amount equal to any penalties or enforcement fees not actually charged by the local authority.

Regarding Companies

The contact person and/or representative of the company warrants that he/she has the full authority to operate the account of the company. The company representative operating this system on behalf of the company warrants that the company agrees to these terms and conditions.

Miscellaneous

Main Municipality receipts can take up to 30 working days to reflect. Outside Municipalities can take up to 12 weeks to reflect due to additional procedures. Warrants can take up to a further 30 working days depending on the relevant court. If you are aware that you have an Admin Block against your ID then please advise us so that we can get this cleared off your name. All time period referred to herein are estimates only. View My Fines does not guarantee and will in no way be held liable for the duration in which it takes to discharge any fine.

These terms and conditions together with notices within the service and the applications constitute the entire agreement between you and View My Fines in relation to your use of this service and any application, and supersedes all previous agreements in respect of your use of this service.

You may unsubscribe from any services or communications provided by View My Fines at any time by contacting us and requesting to unsubscribe.

When you register on the website, you consent to us using your personal information for purposes of sending to you marketing and promotional materials in relation to our products or services. You may opt out of receiving further marketing and promotional communications or change how you receive such communications, at any time, by way of contact form and requesting to unsubscribe or change your communication preferences.

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