Copyright Policy

At Adventure Junkies Africa, we expect our users to respect the intellectual property rights of others. All capitalized terms used in the Adventure Junkies Africa Copyright Policy have the same meaning as defined in the Adventure Junkies Africa Terms of Service, which incorporates this policy by reference into its terms.

Discouragement of Copyright Infringement

We ask users of Adventure Junkies Africa to take care to avoid infringing the copyrights of others. If you infringe the copyrights of others, Your Content may be removed or suspended in whole or part. It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable and/or terminate accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are charged repeatedly with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others.

Recourse for Copyright Owners: Reporting Complaints with a POPIA Notice

We also provide a mechanism for copyright owners, or those authorized to act on behalf of an owner of a copyright, to report an infringing use of their content on the Adventure Junkies Africa Platform. In accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act of 2020 (“POPIA”), we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement that are reported to our Copyright Agent. We provide you with the requirements of a proper complaint below. For your convenience, the entire text of the POPIA can be found online at: http://www.popia.co.za

In order to provide us a POPIA complaint notice that complies with the POPIA’s requirements (“POPIA Notice”), you should:

1. Provide your contact information, including your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address.
2. Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed. If multiple copyrighted works are covered in your POPIA Notice, you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.
3. Provide information reasonably sufficient for us to locate each instance of allegedly infringing material that you are requesting to be removed or disabled. (For example, by providing each URL where the material may be found on the Adventure Junkies Africa Platform.)
4. Include the following statements in the body of the POPIA Notice:
   
   I declare that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use).
   
   I declare that the information in this POPIA Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright that is allegedly infringed.
5. Include a physical or electronic signature (e.g. typing your printed name)
6. Deliver this POPIA Notice, with all items completed to the Designated Copyright Agent for Adventure Junkies Africa, at:
   
   Attn: Copyright Agent
   [email protected]
   
   Or
   
   Attn: Copyright Agent
   Adventure Junkies Africa PTY Ltd.
   40 Matroosberg Street
   Vaalpark, Sasolburg 1947

For your convenience, we provide you with this web form to complete and send via email if you wish to report copyright infringement.

For the fastest handling, use our web form. If you use an alternative method, it may delay us in processing your request.

If There Is a Copyright Complaint Against You

If you receive a notice that a posting or portion of Your Content has been removed or suspended due to a copyright complaint, that means that we removed it at the request of a content owner. If you believe the material was removed in error, you have the option to file a POPIA counter-notification (the proper format for such counter-notice is defined below). When we receive a proper counter-notification, we will forward it to the party who originally complained about the alleged copyright violation. If we do not receive a notice from the original complainant within 10 business days, stating that the original complainant is seeking a court order to prevent further infringement of the content at issue, we will clear the complaint from your account’s record, and, at our discretion, we may replace the content that was removed.

How to File a POPIA Counter Notification

Please note that there are potentially serious consequences for fraudulent or bad faith submissions of POPIA notifications or counter notifications. Such consequences may be imposed pursuant to the POPIA under Section 2(b). Before submitting a counter-notification, you should be sure that you are the actual rights holder of the content removed or that you have a good faith belief that the content was erroneously removed. It is important to make sure that you understand the repercussions of submitting a false counter-notification.

A proper counter-notification should be sent to Adventure Junkies Africa’s Copyright Agent, as provided above, and it should contain the following:

1. Your name, address, and telephone number
2. The URLs of the content that was removed or disabled by us (you can copy and paste the link provided in the notification email)
3. The following statements:
   
   I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located, or if my address is outside South Africa, for any judicial district in which Adventure Junkies Africa PTY Ltd. is located. I will accept service of process from the claimant of copyright infringement.
   
   I declare, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the content was removed as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
4. Your physical or electronic signature (e.g., typing your full name)