Terms and Conditions

Our Terms and Conditions set the rules for accessing Best Design South Africa and using bestdesignsouthafrica.com. By using Best Design South Africa you agree to our rules below, so please read every section carefully. Our terms and conditions cover the use of bestdesignsouthafrica.com only; separate terms apply on the partner platforms that you may reach through our forms and links (such as for sending your work, newsletters, etc.).

1. Your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions

Best Design South Africa Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of Best Design South Africa, available at https://bestdesignsouthafrica.com, and of all pages, features and content of bestdesignsouthafrica.com. By accessing or using Best Design South Africa, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by our Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and the Cookies Policy. If you do not agree, please stop using Best Design South Africa. The publisher of Best Design South Africa is identified in the Impressum.

2. Content is for entertainment and information only

Best Design South Africa publishes award-winning designs, designers and brands from South Africa. Everything published on Best Design South Africa, including texts, descriptions, images, rankings, daily features, quotes, links and advertisements, is provided for entertainment and general information purposes only. For professional, legal, financial, purchasing, investment or design advice, please consult a qualified professional especially since content on Best Design South Africa is general information and carries no offer, endorsement, recommendation, warranty or guarantee of any product, service, person or company. To purchase a featured design, product or project, please contact its designer, brand or rights holder. You alone are responsible for any decision or action you take on the basis of content published on Best Design South Africa.

3. Provided as is, where is and as available

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Best Design South Africa and all content published on bestdesignsouthafrica.com are provided on an AS IS, WHERE IS and AS AVAILABLE basis, with all faults, and without warranties or representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including, without limitation, any warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that bestdesignsouthafrica.com will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free of viruses or other harmful components.

4. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Best Design South Africa, its publisher and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Best Design South Africa shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, data, goodwill, reputation or opportunity, arising out of or in connection with the use of, or the inability to use, Best Design South Africa, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in our Terms and Conditions excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

5. Full indemnity

You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold harmless Best Design South Africa, its publisher and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Best Design South Africa from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, settlements, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or related to (a) your use or misuse of Best Design South Africa, (b) your breach of our Terms and Conditions, (c) your violation of any law or of any right of a third party, including intellectual property and privacy rights, and (d) any information you provide through Best Design South Africa or to the third-party services reached through it. This obligation survives any end of your use of Best Design South Africa.

6. Intellectual property

Featured works. The designs, products, projects, photographs, renderings, descriptions, names, logos and trademarks featured on Best Design South Africa belong to the original creators, designers, brands and license holders of each work, who keep all rights to their intellectual properties. Every work is shown for editorial purposes, and its presentation on Best Design South Africa leaves every single right with its owners.

Original materials of Best Design South Africa. Except for third-party works, the original texts, the selection and arrangement of content and the layout of Best Design South Africa are protected by copyright and are © 2008 – 2026 Best Design South Africa. You are welcome to read Best Design South Africa and to share links to its pages for personal, non-commercial and lawful purposes. Please obtain prior and explicit written permission from the publisher, and from the relevant rights holders for featured works, before copying, reproducing, scraping, harvesting, mirroring, framing, republishing, redistributing, selling or otherwise exploiting content of bestdesignsouthafrica.com, except where the law expressly allows.

Notice to rights holders. If you are a creator or rights holder and believe that a feature on Best Design South Africa infringes an intellectual property right or gives incorrect credit, you can send a written notice through the contact page, indicating the address of the page, identifying the work and your rights in it, and providing a way to reach you. Every notice is reviewed promptly and carefully and, where appropriate, the content is corrected or removed.

7. Third-party websites, services and advertising

Best Design South Africa contains links to, and content from, third parties, including the A' Design Award & Competition, Designers.org, Design Adage and other partner websites. Third-party websites are operated independently of Best Design South Africa, so their content, availability, terms and privacy practices remain solely the responsibility of the respective third party. You access them at your own risk and subject to their terms.

Advertising shown on Best Design South Africa is delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the privacy-first advertising solution provider of Best Design South Africa. Advertisements are supplied by third parties, and each advertised product, service or advertiser remains solely the responsibility of the respective advertiser. Any dealings between you and an advertiser are solely and exclusively between you and that advertiser.

8. Forms and forwarding to third-party services

Some features of Best Design South Africa, such as the Get Listed page and the Newsletter page, work in two simple steps. You provide a few details on bestdesignsouthafrica.com and are then forwarded to a partner platform that carries out the actual service. The partner platform, and not Best Design South Africa, is responsible for processing your information and for everything that happens after the forwarding, under its own terms and privacy policy. You agree to provide accurate and truthful information and to enter only information that belongs to you or that you are authorized to share.

9. Acceptable use

You agree to use Best Design South Africa for lawful purposes, to access bestdesignsouthafrica.com through ordinary browsing and search engine indexing rather than through robots, crawlers, scrapers, bots or other automated means, to respect the security and availability of bestdesignsouthafrica.com, its servers and its networks, to provide truthful information through our forms, and to keep every credit, copyright, trademark and other notice intact.

10. Availability and changes

The publisher of Best Design South Africa may change, suspend or discontinue Best Design South Africa, or any content or feature of it, at any time, for any reason and without notice or liability. Our Terms and Conditions may also be updated from time to time; the date at the bottom of this page indicates the latest revision. Your continued use of Best Design South Africa after a revision means that you accept the revised Terms and Conditions.

11. Governing law

These Terms and Conditions, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with Best Design South Africa, are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction of the publisher identified in the Impressum, without regard to conflict of law rules and principles, and the competent courts of that jurisdiction have jurisdiction, unless mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence provide otherwise.

12. General provisions

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. A delay in enforcing any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision. Our Terms and Conditions, together with the Privacy Policy and the Cookies Policy, form the entire agreement regarding the use of Best Design South Africa.

13. Contact

If you have questions about our Terms and Conditions, please use the contact page or the Impressum.

Last updated on 10 November 2026