BAML TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Introduction
Buildings and More Limited ("BAML" or "we") operates an ecommerce
platform consisting of a website and mobile application
("marketplace"), together with supporting logistics and payment
infrastructure, for the sale and purchase of consumer product/services
in Nigeria ("territory").
These general terms and conditions
shall apply to buyers and seller/agent/professionals, professionals
and handymen on the marketplace and shall govern your use of the
marketplace and related services.
By using our marketplace, you
accept these general terms and conditions in full. If you disagree
with these general terms and conditions or any part of these general
terms and conditions, you must not use our marketplace.
If you
use our marketplace in the course of a business or other
organizational project, then by so doing you:
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confirm that you have obtained the necessary authority to agree to
these general terms and conditions;
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bind both yourself and the person, company or other legal entity
that operates that business or organizational project, to these
general terms and conditions; and
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agree that "you" in these general terms and conditions shall
reference both the individual user and the relevant person, company
or legal entity unless the context requires otherwise.
- Registration and account
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You may not register with our marketplace if you are under 18 years
of age (by using our marketplace or agreeing to these general terms
and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at
least 18 years of age).
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You may register for an account with our marketplace by completing
and submitting the registration form on our marketplace
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You represent and warrant that all information provided in the
registration form is complete and accurate.
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If you register for an account with our marketplace, you will be
asked to provide an email address/user ID and password and you agree
to:
- keep your password confidential;
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notify us in writing immediately (using our contact details
provided at section 23) if you become aware of any disclosure of
your password; and
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be responsible for any activity on our marketplace arising out of
any failure to keep your password confidential, and that you may
be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
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Your account shall be used exclusively by you and you shall not
transfer your account to any third party. If you authorize any third
party to manage your account on your behalf this shall be at your
own risk.
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We may suspend or cancel your account, and/or edit your account
details, at any time in our sole discretion and without notice or
explanation, providing that if we cancel any product/services or
services you have paid for but not received, and you have not
breached these general terms and conditions, we will refund you in
respect of the same.
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You may cancel your account on our marketplace by contacting us as
provided at section 23.
- Terms and conditions of sale
- You acknowledge and agree that:
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the marketplace provides an online location for
seller/agent/professionals and professionals/handymen to sell and
buyers to purchase product/services and services;
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we shall accept binding sales, on behalf of
seller/agent/professionals, but BAML is not a party to the
transaction between the seller/agent/professional and the buyer;
and
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a contract for the sale and purchase of a product/service or
product/services will come into force between the buyer and
seller/agent/professional, and accordingly you commit to buying or
selling the relevant services, product/service or
product/services, upon the buyer’s confirmation of purchase via
the marketplace.
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Subject to these general terms and conditions, the
seller/agent/professional’s terms of business shall govern the
contract for sale and purchase between the buyer and the
seller/agent/professional. Notwithstanding this, the following
provisions will be incorporated into the contract of sale and
purchase between the buyer and the seller/agent/professional:
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the price for a product/service will be as stated in the relevant
product/service listing;
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the price for the product/service must include all taxes and
comply with applicable laws in force from time to time;
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delivery charges, packaging charges, handling charges,
administrative charges, insurance costs, other ancillary costs and
charges, will only be payable by the buyer if this is expressly
and clearly stated in the product/service listing;
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product/services/services must be of satisfactory quality, fit and
safe for any purpose specified in, and conform in all material
respects to, the product/service listing and any other description
of the product/services supplied or made available by the
seller/agent/professional to the buyer; and
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the seller/agent/professional warrants that the
seller/agent/professional has good title to, and is the sole legal
and beneficial owner of, the product/services, and that the
product/services are not subject to any third party rights or
restrictions including in respect of third party intellectual
property rights and/or any criminal, insolvency or tax
investigation or proceedings
- Returns and refunds
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Returns of product by buyers and acceptance of returned product by
seller/agent/professionals shall be managed by us in accordance with
the returns page on the marketplace, as may be amended from time to
time. Acceptance of returns shall be in our discretion, subject to
compliance with applicable laws of the territory
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Refunds in respect of returned product/services shall be managed in
accordance with the refunds page on the marketplace, as may be
amended from time to time. Our rules on refunds shall be exercised
in our discretion, subject to applicable laws of the territory. We
may offer refunds, in our discretion:
- in respect of the product/service price;
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local and/or international shipping fees (as stated on the refunds
page); and
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by way of store credits, wallet refunds, vouchers, mobile money
transfer, bank transfers or such other method as we may determine
from time to time.
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Returned product shall be accepted and refunds issued by BAML, for
and on behalf of the seller/agent/professional.
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Changes to our returns page or refunds page shall be effective in
respect of all purchases made from the date of publication of the
change on our website.
- Payments
You must make payments due under these general terms and conditions in
accordance with the Payments Information and Guidelines on the
marketplace.
- Rules about your content
- In these general terms and conditions, "your content" means:
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all works and materials (including without limitation text,
graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual
material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or
our marketplace for storage or publication, processing by, or
onward transmission; and
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all communications on the marketplace, including product/service
reviews, feedback and comments.
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Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with
these general terms and conditions, must be accurate, complete and
truthful.
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Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord
with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the
internet, and must not:
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be offensive, obscene, indecent, pornographic, lewd, suggestive or
sexually explicit;
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depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner; or
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be blasphemous, in breach of racial or religious hatred or
discrimination legislation;
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be deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing,
anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory;
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cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person;
or
- constitute spam.
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Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, infringe any person's
legal rights, or be capable of giving rise to legal action against
any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any
applicable law). Your content must not infringe or breach:
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any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right,
design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property
right;
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any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data
protection legislation;
- any contractual obligation owed to any person; or
- any court order
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You must not use our marketplace to link to any website or web page
consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on
our marketplace, breach the provisions of these general terms and
conditions
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You must not submit to our marketplace any material that is or has
ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings
or other similar complaint.
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The review function on the marketplace may be used to facilitate
buyer reviews on product/services. You shall not use the review
function or any other form of communication to provide inaccurate,
inauthentic or fake reviews.
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You must not interfere with a transaction by: (i) contacting another
user to buy or sell an item listed on the marketplace outside of the
marketplace; or (ii) communicating with a user involved in an active
or completed transaction to warn them away from a particular buyer,
seller/agent/professional or item; or (iii) contacting another user
with the intent to collect any payments
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You acknowledge that all users of the marketplace are solely
responsible for interactions with other users and you shall exercise
caution and good judgment in your communication with users. You
shall not send them personal information including credit card
details.
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We may periodically review your content and we reserve the right to
remove any content in our discretion for any reason whatsoever.
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If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our
marketplace, or any material or activity that breaches these general
terms and conditions, you may inform us by contacting us as provided
at section 23.
- Our rights to use your content
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You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish,
translate and distribute your content across our marketing channels
and any existing or future media.
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You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under
section 7.1
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You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the
rights licensed under section 7.1.
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You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the
maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and
represent that all other moral rights in your content have been
waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law
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Without prejudice to our other rights under these general terms and
conditions, if you breach our rules on content in any way, or if we
reasonably suspect that you have breached our rules on content, we
may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
- Use of website and mobile applications
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In this section 8 words "marketplace" and "website" shall be used
interchangeably to refer to BAML’s websites and mobile applications.
- You may:
- view pages from our website in a web browser;
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download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
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print pages from our website for your own personal and
noncommercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic
or excessive;
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stream audio and video files from our website using the media
player on our website; and
- use our marketplace services by means of a web browser,
subject to the other provisions of these general terms and conditions.
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Except as expressly permitted by section 8.2 or the other provisions
of these general terms and conditions, you must not download any
material from our website or save any such material to your computer
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You may only use our website for your own personal and business
purposes in respect of selling or purchasing product/services on the
marketplace
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Except as expressly permitted by these general terms and conditions,
you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
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Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you
must not:
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republish material from our website (including republication on
another website);
- sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
- show any material from our website in public;
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exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
- redistribute material from our website.
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Notwithstanding section 8.6, you may forward links to
product/services on our website and redistribute our newsletter and
promotional materials in print and electronic form to any person.
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We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website,
to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We
may, for example, suspend access to the website during server
maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent
or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access
restriction measures on the website.
- You must not:
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use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may
cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance,
availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
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use our website in any way that is unethical, unlawful, illegal,
fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful,
illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
- hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
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probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our
permission;
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circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on
or relating to our website;
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use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish
or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any
spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger,
rootkit or other malicious computer software;
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impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources
(including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);
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decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website
without our permission;
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conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities
(including without limitation scraping, data mining, data
extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website
without our express written consent;
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access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot,
spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search
engine indexing;
- use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
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violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our
website;
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use data collected from our website for any direct marketing
activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS
marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or
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do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
- Copyright and trademarks
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Subject to the express provisions of these general terms and
conditions:
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we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright
and other intellectual property rights in our website and the
material on our website; and
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all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our
website and the material on our website are reserved.
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BAML’s logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks
are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of
these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our
rights.
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The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service
marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and
we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of
any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise
such rights
- Data Privacy
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Buyers agree to processing of their personal data in accordance with
the terms of BAML’s Privacy and Cookie Notice
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BAML shall process all personal data obtained through the
marketplace and related services in accordance with the terms of our
Privacy and Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy.
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Seller/agent/professionals shall be directly responsible to buyers
for any misuse of their personal data and BAML shall bear no
liability to buyers in respect of any misuse by
seller/agent/professionals of their personal data.
- Due diligence and audit rights
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We operate an anti-money laundering compliance program and reserve
the right to perform due diligence checks on all users of the
marketplace.
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You agree to provide to us all such information, documentation and
access to your business premises as we may require:
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in order to verify your adherence to, and performance of, your
obligations under this Agreement;
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for the purpose of disclosures pursuant to a valid order by a
court or other governmental body; or
- as otherwise required by law or applicable regulation
- BAML’s role as a marketplace
- You acknowledge that:
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we do not confirm the identity of all marketplace users, check
their credit worthiness or bona fides, or otherwise vet them;
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we do not check, audit or monitor all information contained in
listings;
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we are not party to any contract for the sale or purchase of
product/services advertised on the marketplace;
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we are not involved in any transaction between a buyer and a
seller/agent/professional in any way, save that we facilitate a
marketplace for buyers and seller/agent/professionals and process
payments on behalf of seller/agent/professionals;
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we are not the agents for any buyer or seller/agent/professional
and accordingly we will not be liable to any person in relation to the
offer for sale, sale or purchase of any product/services advertised on
our marketplace; furthermore we are not responsible for the
enforcement of any contractual obligations arising out of a contract
for the sale or purchase of any product/services and we will have no
obligation to mediate between the parties to any such contract.
- We do not warrant or represent:
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the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our
marketplace;
- that the material on the marketplace is up to date;
- that the marketplace will operate without fault; or
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that the marketplace or any service on the marketplace will remain
available.
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We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our
marketplace services, and to stop publishing our marketplace, at any
time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.
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We do not guarantee any commercial results concerning the use of the
marketplace.
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To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to
section 13.1 below, we exclude all representations and warranties
relating to the subject matter of these general terms and
conditions, our marketplace and the use of our marketplace.
- Limitations and exclusions of liability
- Nothing in these general terms and conditions will:
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limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under
applicable law; or
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exclude any liabilities or statutory rights that may not be
excluded under applicable law.
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The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section
13 and elsewhere in these general terms and conditions:
- are subject to section 13.1; and
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govern all liabilities arising under these general terms and
conditions or relating to the subject matter of these general
terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract,
in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty,
except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these general
terms and conditions
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In respect of the services offered to you free of charge we will not
be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.
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Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide
services to you under these general terms and conditions shall not
exceed the total amount paid and payable to us under the contract.
Each separate transaction on the marketplace shall constitute a
separate contract for the purpose of this section 13.4.
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Notwithstanding section 13.4 above, we will not be liable to you for
any loss or damage of any nature, including in respect of:
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any losses occasioned by any interruption or dysfunction to the
website;
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any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our
reasonable control;
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any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or
damage to profits, income, revenue, use, product/service,
anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities
or goodwill;
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any loss or corruption of any data, database or software; or
- any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
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We accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal
liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that
interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity;
you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our
officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in
connection with the marketplace or these general terms and
conditions (this will not limit or exclude the liability of the
limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our
officers and employees).
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Our marketplace includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and
operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and
we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that
may arise from your use of them.
- Indemnification
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You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified,
against:
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any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses
(including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid
by us to any third party in settlement of a claim or dispute)
incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out
of your use of our marketplace or any breach by you of any
provision of these general terms and conditions or the BAML codes,
policies or guidelines; and
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any VAT liability or other tax liability that we may incur in
relation to any sale, supply or purchase made through our
marketplace, where that liability arises out of your failure to
pay, withhold, declare or register to pay any VAT or other tax
properly due in any jurisdiction.
- Breaches of these general terms and conditions
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If we permit the registration of an account on our marketplace it
will remain open indefinitely, subject to these general terms and
conditions.
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If you breach these general terms and conditions, or if we
reasonably suspect that you have breached these general terms and
conditions or any BAML codes, policies or guidelines in any way we
may:
- temporarily suspend your access to our marketplace;
- permanently prohibit you from accessing our marketplace;
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block computers using your IP address from accessing our
marketplace;
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contact any or all of your internet service providers and request
that they block your access to our marketplace;
- suspend or delete your account on our marketplace; and/or
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commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract
or otherwise.
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Where we suspend, prohibit or block your access to our marketplace
or a part of our marketplace you must not take any action to
circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including
without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
- Entire Agreement
These general terms and conditions and the BAML codes, policies and
guidelines (and in respect of seller/agent/professionals the
seller/agent/professional terms and conditions) shall constitute the
entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our
marketplace and shall supersede all previous agreements between you
and us in relation to your use of our marketplace
- Hierarchy
Should these general terms and conditions, the
seller/agent/professional terms and conditions, and the BAML codes,
policies and guidelines be in conflict, these terms and conditions,
the seller/agent/professional terms and conditions and the BAML codes,
policies and guidelines shall prevail in the order here stated.
- Variation
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We may revise these general terms and conditions, the
seller/agent/professional terms and conditions, and the BAML codes,
policies and guidelines from time to time.
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The revised general terms and conditions shall apply from the date
of publication on the marketplace.
- Severability
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If a provision of these general terms and conditions is determined
by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or
unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
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If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these general
terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it
were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest
of the provision will continue in effect.
- Assignment
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You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or
otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these
general terms and conditions.
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You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer,
sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or
obligations under these general terms and conditions.
- Third party rights
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A contract under these general terms and conditions is for our
benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be
enforceable by any third party
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The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these
general terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any
third party
- Law and jurisdiction
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These general terms and conditions shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the territory.
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Any disputes relating to these general terms and conditions shall be
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the territory
- Our company details
The marketplace is operated by Buildings and More Limited. We are
registered in Nigeria under registration number RC 1599499, and our
head office is at Plot 556 Gwarinpa 1, Lifecamp, Abuja. You can
contact us by using our marketplace contact form