Legal Information

Last updated: 2 November 2026

About This Legal Information Page

This page contains the statutory information that Sleuthzy.org publishes about itself as the operator of this website. It is written for readers, contributors, advertisers, subscribers and anyone else who deals with this publication, and it is intended to satisfy the disclosure duties that apply to commercial websites in the Republic of South Africa. The most important of those duties flows from section 43 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, which requires a supplier who offers goods or services on a website to make its identity, legal status, registration details, physical address and electronic contact details available to the public. Additional duties arise from the Companies Act 71 of 2008, the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, the Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991, the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000, the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 and the Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993.

Instead of scattering this information across the site, we have gathered it here so that it can be read in one place. If you are looking for a specific disclosure, the sections below move from the identity of the operator, through registration and tax details, to the practical rules that govern access to, and use of, this website.

Identity of the Website Operator

This website is owned, operated and published by Sleuthzy.org, a media publisher that produces entertainment and celebrity culture journalism for a South African readership. The operator is the entity that decides what is published on this site, that concludes agreements with writers, photographers, advertisers and subscription partners, and that is responsible for the personal information processed through this website.

Where this page refers to "we", "us", "our" or "the operator", those words mean Sleuthzy.org. Where this page refers to "you" or "the reader", those words mean any person who accesses, browses, subscribes to or otherwise uses this website, whether on a once-off basis or repeatedly.

Editorial content published on this site, including entertainment news, celebrity interviews, reviews and cultural commentary, is produced under the editorial responsibility of Sleuthzy.org. Commercial content, such as advertising, sponsored features and affiliate placements, is identified as such where it appears, and the responsibility for compliance with the relevant advertising codes rests with the operator together with the advertiser concerned.

Legal Form, Registration Details and Tax Identifiers

The operator is a private company incorporated in the Republic of South Africa in accordance with the company laws of the country and registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. As a juristic person, it has its own legal personality, which means that it, and not its shareholders or employees, is the party that contracts with visitors to this site and that is answerable for its obligations.

Full legal name: Sleuthzy.org
Company registration number: 1998/012354/07
Country of registration: South Africa
Legal form: Private company with limited liability
Regulator: Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)
Tax status: Registered with the South African Revenue Service; where the operator is registered for value-added tax, the VAT registration number is displayed in the footer of this website and on every tax invoice issued in terms of the Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991.

Registration numbers are the primary means by which the public, the courts and regulators identify a specific company, because company names may change over time or be used by more than one business. You may verify the registration details above through the public records maintained by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission.

The operator has appointed an Information Officer for the purposes of the Protection of Personal Information Act and the Promotion of Access to Information Act. The Information Officer is responsible for encouraging compliance with the conditions for lawful processing of personal information, for dealing with data subject access requests, for handling requests for access to records, and for acting as the point of contact with the Information Regulator. The name of the current Information Officer, and of any Deputy Information Officers, is recorded in the manual published in terms of section 51 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, which is available on request through the contact route set out below.

The operator is not a member of a self-regulatory body in respect of the sale of goods and does not subscribe to an external code of conduct beyond the applicable statutory framework, although it voluntarily observes the recognised South African press and advertising standards that apply to magazine publishing.

Registered Office and Contact Route

The operator's registered office and principal place of business in the Republic of South Africa is at 52 Roodebloem Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915, South Africa. Legal documents, notices and formal correspondence may be delivered to that address, and service at that address is accepted as service on the operator.

The primary electronic contact point for this website, including for legal notices, privacy questions, editorial corrections, advertising enquiries and complaints, is the email address [email protected]. Written correspondence is preferred because it creates a clear record of what was sent and when it was received.

Where a matter relates specifically to personal information, please address your message to the Information Officer and mark it clearly as a privacy request so that it can be routed without delay. Where a matter relates to a request for access to a record of the operator, please identify the record you seek as precisely as you can.

Purpose, Scope and Intended Audience of the Website

This website is an online entertainment and celebrity culture publication aimed primarily at readers in South Africa. It reports on film, television, music, streaming, celebrity news, red-carpet events, awards, reality programming, popular culture and the South African entertainment industry. It also carries an editorial blog in which shorter commentary, opinion pieces and updates are published alongside the main magazine-style content.

The site is intended for a general adult audience. Some reporting may touch on mature themes, and some interviews may contain strong language or reference adult subject matter. Where content is unsuitable for younger readers, we try to flag it in the body of the article. Readers under the age of eighteen should use the site with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

The site is published in English and is directed at the South African market. Nothing on this site is intended as an offer to sell goods or services to consumers outside the Republic of South Africa, and certain features, competitions or promotions may be limited to South African residents for legal reasons.

Access To and Acceptable Use Of the Website

Access to the public parts of this site is provided free of charge, subject to your internet connection costs and the terms of your service provider. We may, however, introduce subscription-only, registration-only, paid or gated areas, and we may change what is freely available at any time.

When you use this site, you agree to do so lawfully and reasonably. In particular, you may not:

copy, scrape, harvest or systematically extract content, images, contact details, article bodies or user data from the site, whether manually or by automated means;
use bots, crawlers, spiders or other automated tools in a way that imposes an unreasonable load on our systems or that bypasses any technical protection measure;
attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site, to any account, or to any server or database connected to the site;
upload, post or transmit material that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, harassing, discriminatory, obscene, misleading or invasive of another person's privacy;
impersonate another person, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organisation;
use the site to distribute unsolicited commercial communications, malware, or any code designed to disrupt or damage the site or the devices of other users;
infringe the copyright, trade mark, personality or other rights of the operator or of any third party.

Where you submit a comment, a letter, a correction, a photograph or any other contribution, you confirm that you have the right to submit it and you grant the operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish, edit, archive and republish that contribution in connection with this publication. We may remove any contribution that we consider, in our reasonable discretion, to breach these rules, and we may suspend or block access for any user who repeatedly does so.

Intellectual Property, Trade Marks and Content Ownership

All content on this website, including articles, interviews, photographs, illustrations, videos, page layouts, graphics, logos, brand names, taglines, databases and the underlying code, is owned by or licensed to Sleuthzy.org and is protected by the Copyright Act 98 of 1978, the Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993, the Berne Convention and other applicable laws.

You may read, view, download and print content for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may quote short extracts for the purposes of criticism, review, reporting current events, teaching or scholarly research, provided that the quotation is fair, that the source is clearly acknowledged with the name of this publication and the title of the article, and that the use does not suggest that the operator endorses your work.

Any other use requires our prior written permission. This includes reproducing or republishing whole articles, syndicating content, using our photographs or videos on other platforms, using our content to train automated systems, and using our names or logos in a way that implies a partnership, sponsorship or endorsement that does not exist. Requests for permission or for a syndication licence should be sent to [email protected].

Third-party trade marks, film titles, programme names and celebrity images that appear on this site remain the property of their respective owners and are used for identification, reporting and commentary purposes only.

Accuracy, Availability and Proportionate Limitations of Liability

We take care to report accurately, to distinguish opinion from fact, and to correct errors promptly when they are brought to our attention. Entertainment journalism nevertheless deals with fast-moving events, unverified claims made by other people, and information that changes between the time of writing and the time of reading. Content is therefore published on an "as is" and "as available" basis, and you should treat it as general information and comment rather than as professional, legal, financial or medical advice.

We do not promise that the site will always be available, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, nor that any particular article, image or feature will remain online. We may suspend, withdraw or restructure any part of the site at any time, including for maintenance or because of events beyond our reasonable control.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and subject always to the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 where it applies, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, data or reputation, arising from your use of this site or your reliance on its content. Nothing on this page excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, for wilful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

If a court or regulator finds any part of this limitation to be unenforceable, that part will be severed and the remainder will continue to apply.

External Links and Third-Party Content

This site may link to other websites, embed video players, host social media feeds, display advertiser creatives, or quote material published elsewhere. Those destinations are controlled by third parties over whom we have no authority, and their content, security, availability and privacy practices are their responsibility and not ours.

A link from this site does not mean that we endorse the linked site, its owner, its products or its views, and it does not mean that we have verified the accuracy of anything published there. You follow external links at your own risk, and you should review the terms and privacy notices of any site you visit.

If you believe that material on this site infringes your copyright or another right, or if you believe that a link we have published points to unlawful content, please notify us at [email protected] with enough detail to identify the material and to explain the basis of your complaint. We will investigate and, where appropriate, remove or disable access to the material.

Personal Information, Privacy and Cookies

This site processes personal information in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 and the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000. We collect information that you give us directly, such as your name and email address when you subscribe to a newsletter, post a comment or contact us, and limited technical information that is generated automatically when you browse the site.

Personal information is used to operate the site, to deliver newsletters and alerts you have asked for, to moderate comments, to respond to queries, to measure how content performs, to prevent abuse, and to meet our legal and accounting obligations. We keep it only for as long as it is needed for those purposes or for as long as the law requires, and we apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect it.

Full detail is set out in the documents that form part of this site's legal framework, namely the Privacy Policy, which explains what we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it and what rights you have; the Cookie Policy, which explains the cookies and similar technologies used on the site and how you can manage them through the site-wide cookie banner and your browser settings; the Terms and Conditions, which govern subscriptions, contributions and commercial dealings; and the Payment and Refund Policy, which sets out how payments are taken and when refunds are available. Those documents should be read together with this page, and where they conflict with this page on a matter of personal information, the Privacy Policy prevails.

You may ask to see the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it where there is no lawful reason for us to keep it, object to certain processing, or withdraw consent you previously gave. Requests should be sent to [email protected], marked for the attention of the Information Officer. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may approach the Information Regulator of South Africa.

Subscriptions, Payment and Refunds

Where the site offers paid subscriptions, single-issue purchases, premium newsletters or tickets to events, the price, the billing period and the delivery method are shown before you confirm your order. Prices are quoted in South African rand and include value-added tax where the operator is registered for VAT. Payment is taken through a reputable third-party payment provider, which handles card details on an encrypted connection; we do not see or store your full card number.

Because subscriptions are supplied electronically from the moment access is granted, the ordinary cooling-off right that applies to direct marketing may be affected once digital delivery has begun with your consent and acknowledgement. Where you purchase a physical product, such as a printed issue, you have a seven-day right to cancel the purchase in terms of section 44 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, and separate rights if the item arrives damaged or is not what you ordered.

The detailed rules, including how to cancel a subscription, how renewal works, how long delivery takes and how refunds are processed, are set out in the Payment and Refund Policy and in the Terms and Conditions. Please read those documents before you subscribe.

Consumer Rights, Complaints and Dispute Resolution

If something goes wrong, please contact us first at [email protected] and explain the problem, including any order reference or article link. We would far rather resolve a difficulty directly than have it escalate, and we aim to acknowledge complaints promptly and to give you a substantive answer within a reasonable time.

Nothing in this page takes away rights that South African law gives you as a consumer. If we cannot resolve a complaint between us, you may refer the matter to the National Consumer Commission, to a recognised consumer goods and services ombud, to the Press Council of South Africa or its appeals panel where the complaint concerns editorial conduct, or to any other forum that the law makes available to you. Complaints about the processing of personal information may be taken to the Information Regulator of South Africa.

Applicable Law and Competent Courts

This website, this legal information page and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa. Subject to the consumer protections described above and to any statute that gives a different court jurisdiction, the courts of the Republic of South Africa have jurisdiction over any dispute, and the operator accepts service of legal documents at the registered office identified on this page.

If any provision of this page is found to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be treated as severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will continue in full force.

Changes to This Page and How to Reach Us

We review this page regularly and update it when our corporate details change, when the law changes, or when we add or remove a feature that affects the disclosures made here. The date shown at the top of the page is the date of the most recent revision. Continued use of the site after an update means that you accept the revised page.

Questions about the information on this page, requests for the section 51 manual, and any formal notice may be sent to [email protected], or by post to 52 Roodebloem Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915, South Africa. Please mark correspondence clearly so that it reaches the correct department.

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