Terms & conditions

Clear terms for a community information service

These terms explain who operates the Hub and how the free information, submission and moderation service works.

Community firstClear information. Human review.

Service identity

Hub4Communities

Independent community service · Montagu, Langeberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Operator and acceptance

Hub4Communities is the trading name used by the independent operator of Hub for Communities. This website is its founding Langeberg regional edition and the operator is based in Montagu, Langeberg, Western Cape, South Africa. The responsible party’s legal identity is disclosed in the Privacy & Consent notice and PAIA manual. These terms govern use of the site. By sending a submission or creating a private Hub account, you accept these terms, the Privacy & Consent notice and the Community Rules. If you do not agree, do not submit information or create an account.

Current free service

The current website provides free community information, vacancy and notice intake, approved business and community-service listings, and a moderated List & Sell noticeboard with optional item photos. Access and approved listings remain free even if separate third-party display advertising is active. List & Sell requires no account and each approved sale listing runs for no more than 14 days. Photos remain private until separately approved and never bypass listing moderation. The website also offers moderated Quick Update access and optional private Hub accounts for adults representing an employer, business, service provider or organisation. Accountless first submissions remain available. The Hub may edit for clarity, ask for information, decline an item or remove information that is stale, sold, unsafe or incorrect.

Submissions and permission

You must submit accurate information that you are authorised to share. You keep ownership of your content. You give the Hub a non-exclusive permission to review, verify, edit for clarity, and—only if approved and consistent with your consent—publish or distribute a publishable submission through relevant Hub channels. Retained assistance cases submitted under an earlier retired intake, correction reports and general-contact cases remain private and cannot become public content without a new publishable submission and consent. Private contact details remain private unless you separately permit publication on a publishable submission.

Private messages and republication

Sending information in a private message does not by itself give permission for republication on the website, Channel or another platform. A publishable submission and the required consent are needed. Private phone numbers and contact details must not be copied, compiled or reused without permission.

List & Sell transactions and safety

List & Sell is a moderated public noticeboard, not a seller, marketplace intermediary, payment service, escrow agent, courier, insurer or guarantor. Seller-supplied details and human moderation do not verify identity, ownership, condition, authenticity, safety or value. Buyers and sellers arrange any contact, inspection, payment and collection directly and at their own risk. Inspect before paying, meet in daylight in a public place, take another person where practical, never send a deposit to secure an item, and never share an OTP, password, banking credential or identity document. The Hub may reject or remove prohibited, suspicious, reported, sold or expired listings and does not arbitrate private transactions.

Adults, children and photos

A submitter must be 18 or older. Children may not use the public form directly. If a non-sale submission necessarily identifies a child, only the child’s parent or legal guardian may provide it and must give prior, specific consent. Sale listings and sale photos must contain no child, face or personal information. List & Sell accepts only optional item photos under the separate photo consent and moderation process; photos for other public-form submission types remain disabled.

Moderation and publication

Every submission may be checked, clarified, edited, delayed, redirected, rejected or removed. Submission does not guarantee publication, timing, ranking, reach, sales, employment, safety or accuracy. Approved public listings and information are presented under the same moderation rules.

Quick Update requests

Approved job and business submissions under the current notice may use Quick Update for that one item. A nominated mailbox may propose an update, renewal or removal, but may not publish directly, transfer the management identity or claim verified legal ownership. The owner may write changed public copy in the selected site language; an administrator must finalise and check both English and Afrikaans versions before applying them together. The current approved version remains public unless and until an administrator applies a valid revision-bound request. The Hub may verify the source, decline a request, mark a stale request or archive an approved removal. No public profile is created. A signed-in account may link each additional approved listing only through that listing’s own authorised mailbox confirmation.

Private Hub accounts

A private, passwordless Hub account may be created directly through email confirmation and can exist before any listing is approved. It groups organisations and approved job or business listings later linked through nominated-mailbox confirmation. It does not verify legal ownership, create a public organisation profile, confer authority, promise publication or permit direct public changes. Selecting a listing opens the same revision-bound Quick Update process, and every request remains subject to source checks, bilingual review, moderation, expiry and administrator approval. The Hub may suspend or close an account, revoke a membership or unlink a listing to protect users, listings or the service. Affected pending account-origin requests then become permanently stale and are not revived by later access restoration; public content is not changed by the access action itself.

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Acceptable use

Do not misuse the form or network, evade rate limits, impersonate another person, submit unlawful or misleading content, infringe rights, expose unnecessary personal information, or upload or send malware. The Hub may restrict access and preserve limited evidence where reasonably necessary for security, moderation or legal compliance.

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Third-party services

WhatsApp, Google AdSense advertising, municipal, employment, grant and other external services or links are operated by their respective providers. Their own terms and privacy practices apply. A verified destination link or displayed ad does not make the Hub responsible for or endorse the external service, advertiser, transaction or content. Optional display advertising is governed by the separate advertising notice effective 17 September 2026 and never changes the Hub's free-listing, moderation or ranking rules.

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Safety and service limits

The Hub is not an emergency service and does not provide legal, medical, financial or official municipal advice. Information may become outdated and service may be interrupted. Users must verify important facts with the original source and contact the appropriate official service in an emergency.

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Law, changes and contact

South African law applies. Nothing in these terms excludes rights or liability that law does not permit the Hub to exclude. Material changes will be dated on this page and apply prospectively. Questions or disputes should first be sent to hubforcommunities@gmail.com so they can be addressed fairly.

Privacy is part of these terms

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