The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are not entitled to read, copy, use or disclose any information contained in this message to others. Disclosure and / or use may lead to civil liability. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this e-mail or by contacting the Practice telephonically and thereafter permanently deleting this message and any attachments to it.
Although the Practice takes great care in dealing with clients and third parties, the safety of the use of e-mail on the internet cannot be secured. The Practice does not guarantee that this message is secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Recipients are requested to scan this message and all attachments to ensure that it is virus free.

THE PRACTICE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OR DAMAGES WHICH MAY ARISE FROM THE USE OF AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE PRACTICE BY YOURSELF THROUGH THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MAIL. BY USING ELECTRONIC MAIL AND COMMUNICATING WITH THE PRACTICE THROUGH THIS MEDIUM, YOU INDEMNIFY THE PRACTICE AGAINST ANY LOSS, CLAIM OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE SUFFERED BY YOURSELF OR ANY THIRD PARTY ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM YOUR USE OF ELECTRONIC MAIL. YOU FURTHER, BY USE OF ELECTRONIC MAIL, INDEMNIFY THE PRACTICE FROM LIABLITY OF ANY LOSS, CLAIM OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE SUFFERED BY YOURSELF, SHOULD ANY THIRD PARTY THROUGH YOUR USE OF ELECTRONIC MAIL, GAIN ACCESS TO ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION, inclusive of but not restricted to your URL address, location, personal information, any data, and specifically not banking details which you may provide by means of ELECTRONIC MAIL.

Personal views and opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Practice. The Practice does not accept liability for any errors, omissions or offensive content in this message. The addressee should request a hard copy if verification of this message is required.
The e-mail address used in this e-mail, is meant to be used for the purposes of the intended recipient only. The e-mail addresses may under no circumstances be used for any unsolicited communications or placed in a data base used by any third parties for the purposes of unsolicited communications.
You are specifically informed of the following regarding any banking details furnished by the Practice:

(a) In the course of business, the Practice may furnish you with banking details for the purposes of making payments. The Practice takes great care to deliver the correct banking details to you. The details will be furnished by means of electronic mail to which will be attached an encrypted written confirmation of banking details issued by our bankers and protected with a password. The details will be provided in PDF-format.
(b) Our directors/staff will furnish you with the password by means of a text or other electronic message sent to your mobile device of choice, to open the document, and will assist where necessary, on receipt of your request for assistance. In case you require assistance, kindly contact us telephonically at our offices, the contact details which are displayed on our website.
(c) The practice will never change banking details via electronic mail (e-mail) or by means of a text or other electronic message. Should any notice be received by yourself through any medium whatsoever in which you are notified that our banking details have changed, you must immediately contact our offices telephonically on the contact number(s) displayed on our website and speak to a director of the Practice. Your attention is hereby drawn to the fact that in terms of prevailing South African Law, the duty to confirm the correct banking details of a person to whom an electronic funds transfer is made via internet banking services, rests on the person making the payment, and not on the recipient of the funds. By making an electronic funds transfer/payment to the Practice, using internet banking services, you acknowledge the following:
• you have availed yourself and are aware of the risks associated with internet banking services, and accept these risks in accordance with the financial institution whose services you use, and in terms of the prevailing law in the Republic of South Africa;
• if the banking details of the Practice have been furnished to you via electronic mail, you have taken the necessary care to confirm such details by means of the process described above, and that you are further aware of the fact that electronic mail can be intercepted and changed, which may cause severe financial loss for yourself;
• you are welcome at all times to contact us telephonically to confirm banking details;
• you are advised in case of any uncertainty regarding the correctness of our banking details, to contact a Director of the Practice telephonically.