TERMS AND CONDITIONS
AGREEMENT
TO TERMS
These Terms of Use constitute a legally
binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an
entity (“you”) and Multivendor Ecommerce (“we,”
“us” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the Multivendor Ecommerce website as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or
mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto
(collectively, the “Site”).
You agree that by accessing the Site,
you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with all of
these Terms of Use, then you are expressly prohibited from using the
Site and you must discontinue use immediately.
Supplemental terms and conditions or
documents that may be posted on the Site from time to time are hereby expressly
incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion,
to make changes or modifications to these Terms of Use at any time and for any
reason.
We will alert you about any changes by
updating the “Last updated” date of these Terms of Use, and you waive any right
to receive specific notice of each such change.
It is your
responsibility to periodically review these Terms of Use to stay informed of
updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of
and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Terms of Use by your continued
use of the Site after the date such revised Terms of Use are posted.
The information provided on the Site is
not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any
jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law
or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within
such jurisdiction or country.
Accordingly, those persons who choose
to access the Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are
solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local
laws are applicable.
Option 1: The Site is intended for
users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not
permitted to use or register for the Site.
Option 2: [The Site is intended for
users who are at least 13 years of age.] All users who are minors in the
jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the
permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use
the Site. If you are a minor, you must have your parent or guardian read and
agree to these Terms of Use prior to you using the Site.
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Unless otherwise indicated, the Site is
our proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality,
software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the
Site (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos
contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to
us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other
intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States,
foreign jurisdictions, and international conventions.
The Content and the Marks are provided
on the Site “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as
expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content or
Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted,
publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold,
licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without
our express prior written permission.
Provided that you are eligible to use
the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and to
download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have
properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve
all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Site, the Content and the
Marks.
USER
REPRESENTATIONS
By using the Site , you represent and
warrant that:
(1) all registration information you
submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete;
(2) you will maintain the accuracy of
such information and promptly update such registration information as
necessary;
(3) you have the legal capacity and you
agree to comply with these Terms of Use;
[(4) you are not under the age of 13];
(5) you are not a minor in the
jurisdiction in which you reside[, or if a minor, you have received parental
permission to use the Site];
(6) you will not access the Site
through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or
otherwise;
(7) you will not use the Site for any
illegal or unauthorized purpose;
(8) your use of the Site will not
violate any applicable law or regulation.
If you provide any information that is
untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or
terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Site
(or any portion thereof).
USER
REGISTRATION
You may be required to register with
the Site. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible
for all use of your account and password. We reserve the right to remove,
reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion,
that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.
PRODUCTS
We make every effort to display as
accurately as possible the colors, features, specifications, and details of the
products available on the Site. However, we do not guarantee that the colors,
features, specifications, and details of the products will be accurate,
complete, reliable, current, or free of other errors, and your electronic
display may not accurately reflect the actual colors and details of the products.
All products are subject to
availability, and we cannot guarantee that items will be in stock. We reserve
the right to discontinue any products at any time for any reason. Prices for
all products are subject to change.
PURCHASES AND
PAYMENT
We accept payment in the form of credit
card or PayPal. You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase
and account information for all purchases made via the Site. You further agree
to promptly update account and payment information, including email address,
payment method, and payment card expiration date, so that we can complete your
transactions and contact you as needed. Sales tax will be added to the price of
purchases as deemed required by us. We may change prices at any time. All
payments shall be in U.S. dollars.
You agree to pay all charges at the
prices then in effect for your purchases and any applicable shipping fees, and
you authorize us to charge your chosen payment provider for any such amounts
upon placing your order.
We reserve the right to refuse any
order placed through the Site. We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel
quantities purchased per person, per household, or per order. These
restrictions may include orders placed by or under the same customer account,
the same payment method, and/or orders that use the same billing or shipping
address. We reserve the right to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole
judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers, or distributors.
[RETURN/REFUNDS]
POLICY
The buyer is subject to the return policy of Vendor from
whom buyer purchases product(s). Buyers
and Vendors are expected to deal with each other to come to a resolution.
PROHIBITED
ACTIVITIES
You may not access or use the Site for
any purpose other than that for which we make the Site available. The Site may
not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are
specifically endorsed or approved by us.
As a user of the Site, you agree not
to:
1.
systematically retrieve data or other
content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a
collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from
us.
2.
make any unauthorized use of the Site,
including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or
other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user
accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
3.
use a buying agent or purchasing agent
to make purchases on the Site.
4.
use the Site to advertise or offer to
sell goods and services.
5.
circumvent, disable, or otherwise
interfere with security-related features of the Site, including features that
prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on
the use of the Site and/or the Content contained therein.
6.
engage in unauthorized framing of or
linking to the Site.
7.
trick, defraud, or mislead us and other
users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as
user passwords;
8.
make improper use of our support
services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
9.
engage in any automated use of the
system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data
mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
10. interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden
on the Site or the networks or services connected to the Site.
11. attempt to impersonate another user or person or
use the username of another user.
12. sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
13. use any information obtained from the Site in order
to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
14. use the Site as part of any effort to compete with
us or otherwise use the Site and/or the Content for any revenue-generating
endeavor or commercial enterprise.
15. decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse
engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the
Site.
16. attempt to bypass any measures of the Site designed
to prevent or restrict access to the Site, or any portion of the Site.
17. harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our
employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Site to you.
18. delete the copyright or other proprietary rights
notice from any Content.
19. copy or adapt the Site’s software, including but
not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
20. upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to
transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of
capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that
interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Site or
modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features,
functions, operation, or maintenance of the Site.
21. upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to
transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection
or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics
interchange formats (“gifs”), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar
devices (sometimes referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanisms”
or “pcms”).
22. except as may be the result of standard search
engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any
automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat
utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Site, or using or launching
any unauthorized script or other software.
23. disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our
opinion, us and/or the Site.
24. use the Site in a manner inconsistent with any
applicable laws or regulations.
GUIDELINES
FOR REVIEWS
We may provide you areas on the Site to
leave reviews or ratings. When posting a review, you must comply with the
following criteria:
(1) you should have firsthand
experience with the person/entity being reviewed;
(2) your reviews should not contain
offensive profanity, or abusive, racist, offensive, or hate language;
(3) your reviews should not contain
discriminatory references based on religion, race, gender, national origin,
age, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability;
(4) your reviews should not contain
references to illegal activity;
(5) you should not be affiliated with
competitors if posting negative reviews;
(6) you should not make any conclusions
as to the legality of conduct;
(7) you may not post any false or
misleading statements;
(8) you may not organize a campaign
encouraging others to post reviews, whether positive or negative.
We may accept, reject, or remove
reviews in our sole discretion. We have absolutely no obligation to screen
reviews or to delete reviews, even if anyone considers reviews objectionable or
inaccurate. Reviews are not endorsed by us, and do not necessarily represent
our opinions or the views of any of our affiliates or partners.
We do not assume liability for any
review or for any claims, liabilities, or losses resulting from any review. By
posting a review, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide,
royalty-free, fully-paid, assignable, and sublicensable right and license to
reproduce, modify, translate, transmit by any means, display, perform, and/or
distribute all content relating to reviews.
SUBMISSIONS
You acknowledge and agree that any
questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information
regarding the Site ("Submissions") provided by you to us are
non-confidential and shall become our sole property. We shall own exclusive
rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to
the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any lawful
purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to
you.
You hereby waive all moral rights to
any such Submissions, and you hereby warrant that any such Submissions are
original with you or that you have the right to submit such Submissions. You agree
there shall be no recourse against us for any alleged or actual infringement or
misappropriation of any proprietary right in your Submissions.
THIRD-PARTY
WEBSITES AND CONTENT
The Site may contain (or you may be
sent via the Site) links to other websites ("Third-Party Websites")
as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music,
sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items
belonging to or originating from third parties ("Third-Party
Content").
Such Third-Party Websites and
Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy,
appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any
Third Party Websites accessed through the Site or any Third-Party Content
posted on, available through, or installed from the Site, including the
content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or
other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party
Content.
Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting
the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content
does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave
the Site and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party
Content, you do so at your own risk, and you should be aware these Terms of Use
no longer govern.
You should review the applicable terms
and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to
which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or
install from the Site. Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites will
be through other websites and from other companies, and we take no
responsibility whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively
between you and the applicable third party.
You agree and acknowledge that we do
not endorse the products or services offered on Third-Party Websites and you
shall hold us harmless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products
or services. Additionally, you shall hold us harmless from any losses sustained
by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any
Third-Party Content or any contact with Third-Party Websites.
SITE
MANAGEMENT
We reserve the right, but not the
obligation, to:
(1)
monitor the Site for violations of
these Terms of Use;
(2)
take appropriate legal action against
anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms of Use,
including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement
authorities;
(3)
in our sole discretion and without
limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable
(to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any
portion thereof;
(4)
in our sole discretion and without
limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Site or otherwise disable
all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome
to our systems;
(5)
otherwise manage the Site in a manner designed
to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of
the Site.
TERM AND
TERMINATION
These Terms of Use shall remain in full
force and effect while you use the Site. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION
OF THESE TERMS OF USE, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND
WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE (INCLUDING
BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR
COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE TERMS OF USE OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR
REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SITE OR DELETE
[YOUR ACCOUNT AND] ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT
WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.
If we terminate or suspend your account
for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account
under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even
if you may be acting on behalf of the third party.
In addition to terminating or
suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action,
including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
MODIFICATIONS
AND INTERRUPTIONS
We reserve the right to change, modify,
or remove the contents of the Site at any time or for any reason at our sole
discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any
information on our Site. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all
or part of the Site without notice at any time.
We will not be liable to you or any
third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance
of the Site.
We cannot guarantee the Site will be
available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems
or need to perform maintenance related to the Site, resulting in interruptions,
delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend,
discontinue, or otherwise modify the Site at any time or for any reason without
notice to you.
You agree that we have no liability
whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to
access or use the Site during any downtime or discontinuance of the Site.
Nothing in these Terms of Use will be construed to obligate us to maintain and
support the Site or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in
connection therewith.
JURISDICTION
Any claim against The Multivendor Ecommerce in relation to
website shall be adjudicated in a court in Nassau County, New York
and you agree to exclusive jurisdiction of these courts. This agreement shall
be governed by New York law, without regard to conflict of laws principles
thereof.
INDEMNITY/LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY
You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless The Multivendor Ecommerce and its affiliates (and their respective employees, directors, agents and
representatives) from and against any and all claims, costs, losses, damages,
judgments, penalties, interest and expenses (including reasonable attorneys'
fees) arising out of any claim, action, audit, investigation, inquiry or other
proceeding instituted by a person or entity that arises out of or relates to:
(i) any actual or alleged breach of your representations, warranties, or
obligations set forth in this marketplace agreement; or (ii) your own website
or other sales channels, the products you sell, any content you provide, the
advertisement, offer, sale or return of any products you sell, any actual or
alleged infringement of any intellectual property or proprietary rights by any
products you sell or content you provide, or the collection, payment or failure
to collect or pay any taxes. THE Multivendor Ecommerce WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
MARKETPLACE AGREEMENT, THE SITE, THE INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR THE
MARKETPLACE, OR THOSE RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR
OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO VIA THE SITE.
SIGNATURES
An electronic signature is any electronic sound, symbol, or
process that is related to an agreement and executed with the intent to sign
that agreement. You agree that the process of including this document on the
marketplace constitutes a binding electronic signature by The Multivendor Ecommerce and
that the process of clicking the Terms And Conditions checkbox during the
account creation process represents your binding electronic signature.