This Agreement outlines the terms of service (hereafter “Agreement”) under which Modelprofilesafrica.com Service (hereafter "Service”) is provided to you. Please read the following Agreement carefully. Use the scroll bar to view the entire Agreement. By selecting to use our Service, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age and you agree to the terms of the following release authorization. By using our Service, you further acknowledge your understanding and acceptance of Modelprofilesafrica.com’s information gathering, use and dissemination practices as outlined in our Privacy Policy, which is provided below for your convenience.

RELEASE AUTHORIZATION

By using the Service, you authorize Modelprofilesafrica.com and the career web sites, job placement centers and recruitment agencies they select to reproduce and republish the information provided by you in electronic or other format. You understand that the aforementioned companies provide no warranty or representations that such information will only be used in employment or job-related activities and make no claim or assurances that employment will be obtained as a result of the publication of information. You understand that your Online Modeling Portfolio will be made available for public viewing and may be included as an example at our web site or as a sample, in part or in whole, within the Modelprofilesafrica.com website. You hereby release all rights to the layout and all content, whether text or graphical on your Online Modeling Portfolio to Modelprofilesafrica.com.

RELEASE OF LIABILITY

The personal information provided by you to Modelprofilesafrica.com, which includes, but is not limited to, your name, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and personal preferences (collectively “Personal Information”), will be posted at your request to various databases we shall select and may also be sent or otherwise be made available to interested employers or be made available for public viewing. In transmitting your Personal Information electronically to the Internet and World Wide Web, you agree to release Modelprofilesafrica.com of any liability or damages that may arise from the posting of your Personal Information. Modelprofilesafrica.com reserve the right not to publish any information it finds offensive or inappropriate.

ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE SERVICE

The Service is intended solely for individuals seeking employment and promotion of their modeling careers worldwide. The service may be used only for lawful purposes within this stated context of our intended and acceptable use. Modelprofilesafrica.com holds the sole and exclusive right to interpret the meaning and definition of "acceptable use".

As one of the conditions of your use of the Service, you represent, warrant and agree that you will not use (or plan, encourage or help others to use) the Service for any purpose or in any manner that is prohibited by this Agreement or by applicable law. It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Service complies with this Agreement.

SECURITY RULES

Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Service, including, without limitation: accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorized to access; attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Service, overloading, "flooding", "mail bombing" or "crashing"; sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.

Use of any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activity being conducted through the Service, or taking any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service's infrastructure is expressly prohibited.

Violations of these Security Rules may result in civil or criminal liability. Modelprofilesafrica.com will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

USERNAME AND PASSWORD

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your information, username and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify Modelprofilesafrica.com of any unauthorized use of your registration, information, username or password.

AGENCY RELATIONSHIP

By using the Service you acknowledge that you have pro-actively hired Modelprofilesafrica.com to act on your behalf, as your Agent (hereafter "Agency Relationship"), to create accounts and post your Personal Information on the 3rd party career web sites and web portals, subject to the terms, conditions, rules and regulations governing the services provided by each of these sites.

You hereby further convey to Modelprofilesafrica.com power of attorney to sign on your behalf (whether on paper or digitally) specifically indicating to each of these 3rd party career web sites that you have read, understood and agree to abide by their terms, conditions, rules and regulations.

You additionally acknowledge your understanding that Modelprofilesafrica.com has standardized its information gathering forms (hereafter "Forms") in order to make easy the re-posting of your Personal Information on the various web forms and in the various formats required by the various 3rd party career web sites. With this understanding you further authorize Modelprofilesafrica.com to make its best efforts to interpret some of your answers to questions provided on the Forms in order to re-post whatever information Modelprofilesafrica.com believes, in its sole discretion, are substantially similar answers amongst the available choices on the various 3rd party web sites.

By entering into this Agreement you're accepting full and total responsibility for the actions Modelprofilesafrica.com performs on your behalf and at your request, as if you had performed those actions yourself. Your further acknowledge and agree that you will take full responsibility and are personally liable for any consequences arising from the use of the Services and from this Agreement.

INDEMNIFICATION

By using the Service you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Modelprofilesafrica.com from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from this Agreement, your breach of this Agreement, your use of the Service, the provision by you of any content to the Service or other 3rd party career web sites, or the Agency Relationship. Modelprofilesafrica.com shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you at your expense in their defense.

RELEASE AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

You further agree to release Modelprofilesafrica.com from any claims, demands and damages (actual, consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with this Agreement or the Agency Relationship. If you are a California resident, under this Agreement you are additionally waiving your rights under California Civil Code 1542 which says, "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."

IN NO EVENT SHALL MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, INCOME, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA, LOST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR ACCESS TO, OR THE INABILITY TO USE OR ACCESS, SERVICE AND THE CONTENT AND/OR ANY DOCUMENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

BECAUSE SOME COUNTRIES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF THIS EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS HELD INAPPLICABLE OR UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY REASON, THEN MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY FOR ANY TYPE OF DAMAGES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE PROVIDED HEREUNDER.

WARRANTIES

By entering into this Agreement, you acknowledge that Modelprofilesafrica.com is simply acting as a conduit or messenger and that it makes no warranties of any kind relating to the 3rd party career web sites that Modelprofilesafrica.com will post your Online Modeling Portfolio to. Modelprofilesafrica.com will simply pass through information provided by you and will not verify the accuracy of that information nor accept any responsibility for your activities or conduct.

Modelprofilesafrica.com is not an employment agency or recruiting firm. Modelprofilesafrica.com makes no warrantees or guarantees about any customer's ability to procure employment. Modelprofilesafrica.com does not control any of the 3rd party career web sites it posts to, nor does it control any portion of the hiring process related to its customer. Modelprofilesafrica.com therefore makes no representations or guarantees regarding the effectiveness or timeliness of its Services or its effectiveness in meeting the employment or any other objectives of its customers.

Additionally, Modelprofilesafrica.com makes no warranties of any kind related to its standardization and interpretation of the information gathered in its Forms in order to provide information to 3rd party career web sites. You acknowledge and agree that accuracy of your Personal Information on 3rd party web sites is your sole responsibility, and that Modelprofilesafrica.com is not responsible for correcting, changing or modifying any information provided to 3rd parties on your behalf.

MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ITS SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT ITS SERVERS ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL MECHANISMS. IF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR THE CONTENT RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.

YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR USE OF THIS SERVICE AND THE INTERNET IN GENERAL. THE SERVICE AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, GRAPHICS AND LINKS.

GRANTS

By submitting your Personal Information through the Service you automatically grant Modelprofilesafrica.com the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Personal Information (in whole or part) worldwide or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, without restriction or compensation. In addition, you warrant that all so-called "moral rights" in the Personal Information have been waived.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

International Access: Modelprofilesafrica.com makes no claims that the Service is appropriate or legal to be used by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access Modelprofilesafrica.com Services, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

Partial Validity: If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.

Equitable Relief: You understand and agree that due to the nature of this Agreement, in addition to money damages, Modelprofilesafrica.com will be entitled to equitable relief upon a breach of this Agreement by you.

Governing Law: This Agreement is governed by the laws of the United Kingdom (UK) without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under this Agreement shall lie exclusively with the courts in the United Kingdom.

Entire Agreement: Except as expressly provided in a particular Agreement, Legal Notice, or other notices or Content published through the Service, these terms represent the entire binding Agreement between us, and our respective successors and assigns, and supersede any and all prior understanding, statements or representations, whether electronic, oral or written, regarding Modelprofilesafrica.com or the Services.

Digital Admissibility: You hereby agree that a printed version of this Agreement and of any other notice given in electronic form by Modelprofilesafrica.com or through the Service, which is based upon or relating to this Agreement, shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings and subject to the same conditions as other agreements, business documents or records originally generated, entered into, signed or maintained in printed form.

PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT

Modelprofilesafrica.com is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We value your trust and pledge to do everything we can to handle your personal, private or sensitive information carefully, responsibly and securely. Below are the information gathering, use and dissemination practices for Modelprofilesafrica.com. Please contact Modelprofilesafrica.com through our web site at www.Modelprofilesafrica.com for any questions regarding our privacy practices.

By virtue of using the Service, you are requesting that Personal Information be distributed to 3rd party career web sites. This information may then be viewed, collected and used by others, potentially resulting in unsolicited contact for which Modelprofilesafrica.com can not control or take responsibility.

IF YOU ARE AT ALL CONCERNED ABOUT PRIVACY, THEN MODELPROFILESAFRICA.COM STRONGLY RECOMMENDS YOU DO NOT USE YOUR PRIMARY EMAIL ACCOUNT WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. INSTEAD, YOU MAY SET UP AN ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT THROUGH YAHOO, HOTMAIL OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUR JOB SEARCH. ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU WANT YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBERS TO REMAIN PRIVATE, PLEASE LIST THEM AS “PRIVATE” THROUGH THE SERVICE.

Additionally Modelprofilesafrica.com has no control over the privacy practices of 3rd party career web sites.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Modelprofilesafrica.com will not rent or sell any information gathered from a customer's use of the Service. Your personal information will not be shared with any 3rd parties for any reason other than what's described else where in this Privacy Statement or lawfully requested by lawful authorities.

EMPLOYEE ACCOUNTABILITY

Only those Modelprofilesafrica.com employees that have a legitimate business purpose for accessing and handling personal information obtained by us are given authorization to do so. Additionally, our information management systems are configured in such a way as to block or inhibit employees from accessing information that they have no authority to access.

CUSTOMER SURVEYS

Modelprofilesafrica.com may from time to time conduct surveys that ask you for feedback on our products and services. We use that information for market research, to improve our product offerings, identify desirable new products, and perform service enhancements. We do not release information from Modelprofilesafrica.com survey responses outside Modelprofilesafrica.com without prior permission. We may occasionally share aggregated data with selected business partners. Some surveys may be performed by outside professional firms on our behalf to minimize bias. Those professionals are bound by these same restrictions.

EMAIL TO EXISTING CUSTOMERS

Modelprofilesafrica.com may from time to time send its customers a promotional email messages to market a service or activity. However, we'll only send promotional email when we reasonably believe our customers would be interested in the subject matter. Nonetheless in every case we will provide clear and simple instructions on how to be removed from our mailing list.

Example topics for email messages to customers include: information about a new product or service, offers to try one of our existing services, invitations to try out a new service offered by our associates and affiliates or requests to participate in a survey.

IINFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
www.Modelprofilesafrica.com is the sole owner of all the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways that are different from what is disclosed in this statement. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

ORDER
We request for information from the user in various forms on our web site. Here, a user must provide contact and personal information (such as, but not limited to, name and address) and financial information (such as, but not limited to, credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If www.Modelprofilesafrica.com has trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com uses the user's information for other purposes as well.

USE OF COOKIES
www.Modelprofilesafrica.com uses cookies to gather and store information. Cookies are pieces of data that a web site transfers to user computer's hard drive solely for record-keeping purposes. Cookies help www.Modelprofilesafrica.com make its software more useful by storing information on your preferences. There is nothing unusual about the use of cookies by a web site and they are an industry standard. They do not personally identify you, but they will identify your computer. Your browser is most likely set up to accept cookies, but you can set yours to refuse them. If you do so, you may not be able to take full advantage of www.Modelprofilesafrica.com's web site. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com is not liable for any failure of your computer due to the use of cookies.

LOG FILES
www.Modelprofilesafrica.com use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

SHARING
www.Modelprofilesafrica.com shares aggregated demographic information with partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com may use a credit card processing company to bill users for services or contract a third party to provide specialized services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com may also partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

All information you provide may be used at Modelprofilesafrica.com's total discretion, for example in statistical analysis and for distribution to carefully selected third parties who may be able to assist you in gaining future employment. As a result, you may be contacted by post, fax, email, phone or other reasonable means of communication by Modelprofilesafrica.com, its associates, or other organisations. If you object to this usage of your data, please do not proceed beyond this point and do not enter into any relationship with Modelprofilesafrica.com as a client. Otherwise, by proceeding you are deemed to accept.

LINKS
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that www.Modelprofilesafrica.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com encourages users to be aware when they leave this site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by www.Modelprofilesafrica.com web site.

SURVEYS AND CONTESTS
From time-to-time, www.Modelprofilesafrica.com site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify winners of various competitions that we run, award prizes, assist in setting up internships, training sessions, seminars, conferences, and other related client based activities. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

TELL-A-FRIEND
If a user elects to use www.Modelprofilesafrica.com referral service for informing a friend about this site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. www.Modelprofilesafrica.com will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the site. The friend may contact www.Modelprofilesafrica.com to request the removal of the information from the database. This will be complied with immediately.

SECURITY
This website takes every precaution to protect users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, the information is protected both online and off-line. When registration form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as the credit card payment form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked.

SPECIAL OFFERS
www.Modelprofilesafrica.com sends all new clients a welcoming e-mail to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, www.Modelprofilesafrica.com present the option to not receive these types of communications.

CORRECTION/UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes, or if a user no longer desires our services, www.Modelprofilesafrica.com will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to www.Modelprofilesafrica.com. This can usually be done at the member information page or by e-mailing www.Modelprofilesafrica.com Customer Support.

CHOICE/OPT-OUT
www.Modelprofilesafrica.com users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to www.Modelprofilesafrica.com site.

TERMS & CONDITIONS
» www.Modelprofilesafrica.com does not, in any way, manner or suggestion whatsoever, guarantee that a job opening will be available during any particular time frame or within any specific time frame from the time a client subscribes to our services since job openings are dependent upon external factors that are not directly or indirectly controlled, managed or influenced in any way whatsoever by www.Modelprofilesafrica.com

» You are solely responsible for any and all expenses that will arise should you elect to take up any contract or job assignment outside of your own country. Such expenses include, but are not limited to, airfares, accommodation, meals, visas, vaccinations, passport acquisition, local travel etc etc.

» No refunds will be made should a candidate, for any reason(s) whatsoever and at any stage during our association, decide to opt out of the service they had originally subscribed to. Any and all payments are final and NOT refundable.

» www.Modelprofilesafrica.com takes it that any client who opts for our Online Modeling Portfolio services is conversant with the modern layout and formatting of the same. All our clients Online Modeling Portfolio's are created for the International job markets and may not necessarily be compatible with your locally accepted layout, formats or standards prevalent in your country in one way or other. Our end product will be final and will NOT be changed to suit local layouts, formats or standards unless a client pays for a new service and gives SPECIFIC instruction on the layout and formatting that is acceptable in their own particular country, situation and circumstance. NO refunds will be made for any work that Modelprofilesafrica.com deems to have been completed satisfactorily and in conformity with our internal standards.

» By www.Modelprofilesafrica.com creating your Online Modeling Portfolio, putting you on our Premium list and Action Circle™ or any other special status listing currently in existence or any that will be put in existence in the future, we do not give any guarantee(s), in any way, manner or by suggestion whatsoever that you will get a job, or any job for that matter that you are seeking due to the uncertainty prevalent in the jobs market world wide. Results vary and are largely dependent on an individual's own initiative, drive, ambition, personality and relevancy of education, training and experience to current job openings.

» By your subscribing to our Online Modeling Portfolio service, and/or any other job placement or Online Modeling services currently in place and/or any and all that will be in place in future, Modelprofilesafrica.com does not guarantee, in any way, manner or suggestion whatsoever that you will get a job placement any time or at any time in future or within a certain time or within a certain time period by virtue of your having subscribed to the Online Modeling Portfolio service or any other job placement services currently offered, or any that will be offered in future by Modelprofilesafrica.com

» No refunds of any nature, partial or otherwise, will be made for any reason(s) whatsoever once such payments have been effected by the client and received by us.

» You are solely responsible for all consequences that may arise from any and all communication(s) you will enter into and any action(s) that you will take in relation to any approaches, offers or promises you will get from people, companies or organizations who will have acquired your contact information from our job placement activities and/or from your web site. We urge caution and due diligence at all times when you are dealing with strangers or people you do not know well, whether online or offline. Any and all job offers must be scrutinised carefully and the people, company or organization making those offers carefully checked out prior to making any binding committments, travel or re-location plans.

CONTACTING US

We invite your comments and assistance in helping us maintain our commitment to your privacy. If you feel that Modelprofilesafrica.com, its affiliates, or any of their representatives or employees is violating this Privacy Statement, or you feel we can be handling private information more responsibly, please click here to contact us.

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