Terms of service

SA DEPOT – TERMS OF SERVICE

OVERVIEW

Welcome to SA Depot. Throughout this site, the terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to SA Depot. SA Depot operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services in order to provide you, the customer, with a curated commercial shopping and procurement experience (the "Services"). SA Depot is powered by online e-commerce infrastructure that enables us to provide these Services to you.

The terms and conditions outlined below, together with any policies referenced herein (these "Terms of Service" or "Terms") describe your rights and responsibilities when you use the Services. Please read these Terms of Service carefully, as they include important information about your legal rights and cover areas such as warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability.

 

By visiting, interacting with, or using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service or our Privacy Policy, you should not use or access our Services.

 

SECTION 1 - ACCESS AND ACCOUNT VALIDITY

By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your province of residence (18 years of age in South Africa), or that you are accessing this site on behalf of a legally registered corporate entity that you are duly authorized to bind.

To use our Services, including accessing or browsing our online inventory, requesting quotes, or purchasing any products, you may be required to provide certain structured business information, such as your email address, billing information, company registration details, VAT numbers, and physical delivery/offloading addresses. You represent and warrant that all information you provide is correct, current, and complete, and that you possess all legal rights necessary to provide this data.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials, invoice records, and for all activity occurring under your profile. You may not transfer, sell, assign, or license your account to any other external party.

SECTION 2 - PRODUCT REPRESENTATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS

We make every effort to provide an accurate representation of our products and services—including shipping container dimensions, steel grades, locking mechanisms, and color configurations—within our online store. However, please note that exact color finishes (such as industrial RAL paint codes) or precise surface textures may differ from how they appear on your digital screen due to device settings, panel configurations, and lighting conditions.

Except as provided under the South African Consumer Protection Act (CPA), we do not warrant that the cosmetic appearance or quality of any commercial items purchased by you will perfectly match digital renderings, as physical steel containers inherently display minor industrial variances.

All descriptions of products and technical specifications are subject to change at any time without notice at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to discontinue any product configuration or modify inventory availability at any time.

SECTION 3 - ORDERS, ASSIGNMENT, AND COMMERCIAL USE

When you submit an order or accept a structured quotation, you are making a formal offer to purchase. SA Depot reserves the right to accept or decline your order for any reason at its sole discretion. Your order is not legally accepted until SA Depot issues an official written confirmation or Proforma Invoice. We must receive and clear your payment in full before your order is scheduled for dispatch or collection.

Please review your order specifications, site delivery clearances, and container structural types carefully before submitting. SA Depot may be unable to accommodate cancellation requests after an order is processed or when a container has entered modifications. In the event that we make a change to or cancel an order, we will notify you using the email address, billing address, or phone number provided at the time the order was drafted.

Your purchases are subject to return or exchange solely in accordance with our SA Depot Return & Refund Policy. Contrary to standard personal use limits, items purchased here may be utilized for commercial yard logistics, industrial storage, leasing, or standard operational business applications.

SECTION 4 - PRICES, TAXES, AND BILLING

Prices, commercial discounts, and structural promotions are subject to change without notice. The price charged for a container or equipment asset will be the price in effect at the time the order is placed and will be clearly detailed on your Tax Invoice. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in writing, posted prices exclude value-added tax (VAT), heavy freight shipping, site crane offloading fees, or specialized positioning charges.

You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase, payment, and account information for all transactions executed at our store. You agree to promptly update your business profile, including your email address, primary contact numbers, and payment details, so that we can complete your transactions and facilitate transport clearings.

You represent and warrant that:

  1. The banking or credit card information you provide is true, correct, and complete.

  2. You are duly authorized to utilize the specified account for corporate procurement.

  3. Funds transferred via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) or card gateway will be successfully cleared by our financial institution.

  4. You will cover all charges incurred at the posted rates, including freight delivery charges and all applicable South African taxes.

SECTION 5 - FREIGHT TRANSPORT AND SITE DELIVERY CONDITIONS

While we partner with dedicated heavy haulage operators, SA Depot is not liable for transport delays resulting from traffic anomalies, mechanical breakdown, municipal road restrictions, or severe weather conditions. All delivery windows provided are good-faith estimates only and are not strictly guaranteed.

  • Site Preparation: The buyer is solely responsible for ensuring the delivery site is structurally sound, level, and accessible by large commercial vehicles (such as flatbed or crane trucks).

  • Risk Passing: Unless explicitly structured under an alternative delivery agreement, title and risk of loss or damage pass directly to the customer the moment the container or equipment is successfully offloaded at the designated delivery site, or upon collection from our physical yard.

SECTION 6 - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our Services—including but not limited to all trademarks, brands, unique layouts, text, technical drawings, images, logo designs, graphics, and the selection and arrangement thereof—are owned entirely by SA Depot, its affiliates, or its licensors, and are protected under South African and international copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.

These Terms permit you to utilize the website solely for legitimate procurement and logistics research. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, republish, download, or transmit any material from our platform without our prior written consent. SA Depot's names, official logos, product names, designs, and corporate slogans are protected trademarks of SA Depot.

SECTION 7 - OPTIONAL LOGISTICS & THIRD-PARTY TOOLS

We may provide you with access to optional third-party tools or verification platforms (such as transport distance calculators or third-party finance portals) which we neither actively monitor nor control.

You acknowledge and agree that we provide access to such tools "as is" and "as available" without any warranties, representations, or conditions of any kind. We shall have no liability whatsoever arising from or relating to your use of optional third-party software tools. Any use of these tools is entirely at your own risk.

SECTION 8 - THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND FREIGHT SUPPLIERS

Certain content, products, or services available via our platform may include materials from third parties, such as external haulage operators, modification engineers, or depots. Hyperlinks on this site may direct you to external websites that are not affiliated with us.

We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the accuracy of third-party contents, and we do not warrant and will not have any liability for third-party materials, websites, products, or services. Please carefully review the third party's policies and operational frameworks before engaging in any transaction.

SECTION 9 - SERVICE PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE

SA Depot utilizes robust e-commerce and website hosting infrastructure to deliver these online digital services to you. However, all commercial agreements, invoicing, physical stock asset management, and equipment fulfillments are carried out directly by SA Depot.

By using these Services, you acknowledge that our digital infrastructure providers are not responsible for any operational aspect of sales, logistics, container modifications, or transport injuries occurring on your site. You hereby release our technology hosting partners from any claims or liabilities arising out of your structural transactions with SA Depot.

SECTION 10 - PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION (POPIA COMPLIANCE)

All personal and corporate information we collect through the Services is strictly regulated by our Privacy Policy, which is structured in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), No. 4 of 2013 of South Africa.

By using the Services, you acknowledge that your operational data may be transmitted through secure hosting channels and third-party cloud applications solely to facilitate logistics operations, invoice cross-checking, and order clearings. Please review our complete Privacy Policy for specific clarity on your data rights.

SECTION 11 - SUBMISSIONS AND CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

If you submit specific entries, feedback, structural reviews, container layout plans, or site photos (collectively, "Feedback"), you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, and display such feedback across our commercial media channels.

You represent and warrant that your feedback does not infringe upon the proprietary rights of any third party, does not contain defamatory material, and does not introduce malicious digital codes or malware designed to compromise our online infrastructure. You are solely responsible for the accuracy of any feedback you provide.

SECTION 12 - PRODUCT DATA ERRORS AND OMISSIONS

Occasionally, technical data, pricing schedules, or container availability metrics listed within our services may contain typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, and to change information or adjust orders if any listing data is found to be incorrect, at any time and without prior notice (including after a quote request or order sheet has been submitted).

SECTION 13 - PROHIBITED USES AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY

In addition to standard legal prohibitions, you are strictly prohibited from utilizing the website or its contents:

  1. For any unlawful or fraudulent purpose.

  2. To violate any provincial, national, or international regulations, rules, or local municipal bylaws.

  3. To infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or those of others.

  4. To transmit false, misleading, or purposefully fraudulent commercial information.

  5. To upload or transmit viruses, malware, or any other type of malicious code that could affect the security and operation of the platform.

  6. To engage in automated scraping, data extraction, or deploy unauthorized AI tools (such as agentic AI) to harvest inventory metrics, pricing tables, or client lists without explicit written authorization.

We reserve the right to immediately suspend or terminate your account access for violating any prohibited use conditions.

SECTION 14 - AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND AGENT ACCESS CONTROL

  1. This section applies if you deploy any automated software, script, or digital service ("Agent") to crawl, monitor, or interact with our inventory systems.

  2. No Agent may access or interact with our Services unless it identifies itself transparently in all HTTP/HTTPS requests by stating the explicit identity of the system within the request's user-agent string using the following format: Agent/[agent name].

  3. Agents must not conceal or obfuscate their automated operations, mimic human browsing patterns to bypass site structures, or attempt to circumvent CAPTCHA security frameworks. We reserve the right to apply technical limitations to block or restrict automated scripts that disrupt the stability of our store features.

SECTION 15 - AGREEMENT TERMINATION

We may terminate this agreement or your access to the store dashboard at our sole discretion at any time without notice, and you will remain liable for all outstanding balances due on your account up to and including the date of termination.

All provisions which by their structural nature should survive termination—including ownership clauses, warranty disclaimers, indemnification terms, and governing law clauses—shall remain fully in force.

SECTION 16 - DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

The general informational resources hosted on this site are for procurement guidance only. While we supply high-grade industrial assets, the services and all products provided through our online store are delivered on an "as is" and "as available" basis for your operational deployment, except as explicitly detailed by us in writing or required under the Implied Warranty frameworks of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) of South Africa. We do not guarantee that your digital access to the website database will be completely uninterrupted, secure, or free from temporary technical errors.

SECTION 17 - LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by South African law, in no case shall SA Depot, our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, transport contractors, or service providers be liable for any injury, loss, claim, or any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages of any kind—including, without limitation, lost site profits, lost commercial revenue, operational downtime, loss of stored inventory data, replacement hire costs, or structural site anomalies—arising from your deployment of any units or products procured through our services.

SECTION 18 - INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SA Depot, its partners, officers, directors, agents, and sub-contractors from any losses, liabilities, claims, or legal demands (including reasonable legal fees) made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Service, your violation of municipal spatial bylaws, or the negligent placement and handling of physical containers on your designated delivery sites.

SECTION 19 - SEVERABILITY

In the event that any individual provision of these Terms of Service is determined by a competent South African court to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, such provision shall nonetheless be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. The unenforceable portion shall be deemed severed from these Terms, and such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

SECTION 20 - ENTIRE AGREEMENT

The failure of us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. These Terms, alongside our posted Return Policy, Privacy Policy, and signed commercial purchase agreements, constitute the entire agreement and business understanding between you and SA Depot, superseding any prior verbal configurations or draft correspondences.

SECTION 21 - GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms of Service, along with any separate transactional agreements whereby we provide you with containers or logistical services, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa. You and SA Depot explicitly consent to the exclusive venue and jurisdiction of the appropriate High Court or Magistrate’s Court located within the region where SA Depot maintains its corporate headquarters.

SECTION 22 - CHANGES TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE

You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, alter, or replace any part of these Terms by posting updates directly to our website platform. It remains your responsibility to check our digital interfaces periodically for operational changes. Your continued interaction with the services following the announcement of modifications constitutes complete acceptance of those revisions.

SECTION 23 - COMPANY REGISTRATION AND CONTACT DETAILS

Questions regarding these Terms of Service should be directed to our administration team at info@sadepot.co.za.

Our official corporate contact details are outlined below:

  • Trading Name: SA Depot

  • Primary Contact Email: info@sadepot.co.za

  • Physical Business Address: 65 8th Avenue, Grassy Park, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7941

  • Contact Phone Number: +27 60 317 6237
    Whatsapp Number: +27 60 317 6237

  • Company Registration Number: K2023164151

  • VAT Registration Number: 9627006209