Membership Agreement

A.Background

1. The Company operates the BeeHive Business Network, a vetted professional referral network.
2. The Member applied for membership, the Company accepted the application, and the parties record their agreement here.

1.Definitions and interpretation

1. "Agreement" means this Membership Agreement, its schedules, and any accepted quotation it incorporates.
2. "Client" means you, the party identified in Schedule 1, and where this Agreement uses another capitalised label for you, such as "Member", that label has the same meaning.
3. "Service Terms" means the BeeHive Business Network service terms published at beehive.autohive.co.za/membership-terms.html, version as at the signature date, which are incorporated into this Agreement, including their cancellation provisions.
4. In this document, "the Company", "we", "us" and "our" mean AutoHive Artificial Intelligence (Pty) Ltd, registration number 2025/756077/07, trading as BeeHive Business Network, and "you" and "your" mean the person or entity dealing with us.
5. "Business day" means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a South African public holiday, and "business hours" means 08:30 to 17:00 South African Standard Time on a business day.
6. "Writing" includes email, and "signed" includes a reliable electronic signature as recognised by South African law on electronic communications and transactions.
7. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. The singular includes the plural and one gender includes the others.
8. Where any provision conflicts with a right you have under South African consumer protection or data protection legislation that cannot lawfully be excluded, that legislation prevails to the extent of the conflict.

2.Membership

1. The Company admits the Member to the Network on the terms of this Agreement and the Service Terms, for the discipline and category in Schedule 1.
2. The Member accepts the code of conduct at beehive.autohive.co.za/code-of-conduct.html as binding.
3. Membership runs from the start date in Schedule 1 and continues until cancelled under the Service Terms or this Agreement.

3.Fees, invoicing and payment

1. Fees are as quoted to you in writing or as published on our website at the time you order. A quotation is valid for the period stated on it, or for fourteen days if no period is stated.
2. Unless stated otherwise, invoices are payable confirm standard payment terms, for example on presentation, or within 7 or 30 days by electronic funds transfer to the account stated on the invoice. We do not accept cash at our premises.
3. If any amount is overdue, we may suspend work or access after giving you written notice, and we may charge interest at the maximum rate permitted by law for the agreement in question.
4. You remain responsible for bank charges on your side, and for providing a correct billing entity, address and, where applicable, VAT number for invoicing.
5. Where a deposit is stated, it secures the engagement or booking, and it is applied, refunded or forfeited as the cancellation provisions applying to your engagement state.

4.Confidentiality

1. Each party keeps the other's confidential information secret, uses it only for the engagement, and protects it with at least the care it applies to its own confidential information.
2. Confidential information excludes information that is public through no fault of the receiver, already lawfully known to the receiver, independently developed, or required to be disclosed by law or a competent authority, in which case the receiver gives prompt notice where lawful.
3. This clause survives termination for five years, and indefinitely for trade secrets and personal information.

5.Personal information

1. We process personal information as described in the BeeHive Business Network privacy notice at beehive.autohive.co.za/privacy.html and the AutoHive estate privacy notice at autohive.co.za/privacy/, in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act.
2. Our Information Officer is Barteld Jans Bakker, reachable at Mr.bee@autohive.co.za. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, and you may complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa).
3. Where we process personal information on your instructions as part of a service, the data processing terms in the applicable agreement apply in addition to this clause.

6.Liability and indemnity

1. We perform our obligations with the reasonable skill, care and diligence expected of a competent provider of professional membership network services.
2. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, consequential or special damages, including loss of profit, loss of business, loss of data not caused by our gross negligence, or reputational harm.
3. To the extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising from or connected with an engagement is limited to the amount you actually paid us for that engagement in the six months before the event giving rise to the claim.
4. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or any liability to a consumer that consumer protection legislation does not allow us to exclude.
5. You indemnify us against third-party claims arising from material, instructions or content you supply, or from your unlawful use of our services, except to the extent the claim is caused by our own breach or negligence.

7.Breach, suspension and termination

1. If a party commits a material breach and fails to remedy it within ten business days of written notice, the other party may cancel the affected engagement, without prejudice to other rights.
2. We may suspend services immediately where continued provision would be unlawful, where your account is materially overdue after notice, or where your use threatens the security or integrity of our systems or other clients, and we lift the suspension when the cause is resolved.
3. Either party may cancel immediately if the other is placed in liquidation, business rescue or a comparable process, to the extent the law permits.
4. Clauses that by their nature survive termination, including fees accrued, confidentiality, intellectual property, liability and disputes, survive.

8.Events beyond reasonable control

1. Neither party is liable for failure or delay caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, fire, flood, war, riot, epidemic, government action, labour unrest, failure of telecommunications or hosting providers, and sustained interruption of electricity supply, including scheduled load-shedding beyond the ordinary published schedules.
2. The affected party notifies the other promptly, takes reasonable steps to limit the effect, and performance is suspended for the duration of the event.
3. If the event continues for more than thirty days, either party may cancel the affected engagement on written notice, and we refund any amount paid for services not yet delivered.

9.Disputes, governing law and jurisdiction

1. These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa.
2. The parties first attempt to resolve any dispute by good-faith negotiation between senior representatives within ten business days of written notice of the dispute.
3. If negotiation fails, the parties may agree to mediation in Cape Town or by video conference before either approaches a court or, where agreed in a signed agreement, arbitration.
4. The parties consent to the jurisdiction of the Magistrates' Courts with jurisdiction over our registered address, without excluding either party's right to approach the High Court of South Africa, Western Cape Division.
5. Nothing in this clause prevents a consumer from using any statutory complaint or redress channel available under South African consumer protection law.

10.Notices and address for service

1. The Company chooses High Riding Country Estate, Plot 50 High Riding Road, Sir Lowry's Pass, Somerset West, 7135, Western Cape, South Africa as its address for service, and the email address Mr.bee@autohive.co.za for ordinary notices.
2. You choose the physical and email addresses you supplied when contracting with us. Either party may change its addresses on ten business days' written notice.
3. A notice sent by email is presumed received on the first business day after sending, unless an automated failure report is received.

11.General

1. These terms, together with any signed agreement, quotation and schedule, are the whole agreement on their subject. No amendment, waiver or cancellation is effective unless in writing and accepted by both parties.
2. If any provision is unenforceable, it is severed and the rest remains in force.
3. Neither party may cede or assign its rights or delegate its obligations without the other's written consent, not unreasonably withheld, except that we may use vetted subcontractors while remaining responsible for their work.
4. No relaxation or indulgence by either party is a waiver of any right.
5. We may update these terms for future engagements by publishing a new version with a new version number and effective date. The version in force when you contracted applies to that engagement.

12.Electronic signature and counterparts

1. This agreement may be signed electronically, including through the DocuSeal electronic signature service used by the Company, and an electronic signature has the legal effect South African law on electronic communications and transactions gives it.
2. Signature requests are sent from the Company's document signing mailbox, seal@autohive.co.za. Verify the sending address before signing, and contact us if anything looks wrong.
3. The agreement may be signed in counterparts, each of which is an original and which together are one agreement. A signed copy delivered electronically is as effective as a delivered original.

S1.Schedule 1: Membership details