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Terms & Conditions
Introduction
1.1” Black Curve” is the trading name for the Black Curve group companies listed at Appendix 1. Each Black Curve group company (“Black Curve” or “we”) operates an e-commerce platform consisting of a website and mobile application (“eCommerce”), together with supporting IT, logistics and payment infrastructure, for the sale and purchase of consumer products and services (“products”) in its allocated territory as defined at Appendix 1 (“territory”).
1.2These general terms and conditions shall apply to buyers on the ecommerce and shall govern your use of the eCommerce and related services.
1.3By using our ecommerce, 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 ecommerce.
1.4If you use our ecommerce in the course of a business or other organizational project, then by so doing you:
1.4.1confirm that you have obtained the necessary authority to agree to these general terms and conditions;
1.4.2bind both yourself and the person, company or other legal entity that operates that business or organizational project, to these general terms and conditions; and
1.4.3agree 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
2.1You may not register with our ecommerce if you are under 18 years of age (by using our ecommerce or agreeing to these general terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age).
2.2If you register for an account with our ecommerce, you will be asked to provide an email address/user ID and password and you agree to:
2.2.1keep your password confidential;
2.2.2notify us in writing immediately (using our contact details provided at section 26) if you become aware of any disclosure of your password; and
2.2.3be responsible for any activity on our ecommerce arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and you acknowledge that you may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
2.3Your 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.
2.4We 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 products 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. See section 4.2 below for further information about refunds.
2.5You may cancel your account on our ecommerce by contacting us as provided at section 26.
Terms and conditions of sale
3.1You acknowledge and agree that:
3.1.1the ecommerce provides an online location for buyers to purchase products;
3.1.2
3.1.3a contract for the sale and purchase of a product or products will come into force between the buyer and seller, and accordingly you commit to buying or selling the relevant product or products, upon the buyer’s confirmation of purchase via the ecommerce.
3.2Subject to these general terms and conditions, the seller’s terms of business shall govern the contract for sale and purchase between the buyer and the seller. Notwithstanding this, the following provisions will be incorporated into the contract of sale and purchase between the buyer and the seller:
3.2.1the price for a product will be as stated in the relevant product listing;
3.2.2the price for the product must include all taxes and comply with applicable laws in force from time to time;
3.2.3delivery charges, packaging charges, handling charges, administrative charges, insurance costs, other ancillary costs and charges, where applicable, will only be payable by the buyer if this is expressly and clearly stated in the product listing; and delivery of digital products may be made electronically;
3.2.4products must be of satisfactory quality, fit and safe for any purpose specified in, and conform in all material respects to, the product listing and any other description of the products supplied or made available by the seller to the buyer; and
3.2.5in respect of physical products sold, the seller warrants that the seller has good title to, and is the sole legal and beneficial owner of, the products and/or has the right to supply the products pursuant to this agreement, and that the products 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; and in respect of digital products the seller warrants that the seller has the right to supply the digital products to the buyer.
3.2.6The Seller warrants that, where a product sold has such terms, the Seller will provide detailed disclosure of the product terms and conditions, any applicable warranty, and other terms necessary to inform the buyer on the product and its usage in the specification section provided on each product page.
Returns and refunds
4.1Returns of products by buyers and acceptance of returned products by Black Curve shall be managed by us in accordance with the returns page on the eCommerce, as may be amended from time to time. Acceptance of returns shall be at our discretion, subject to compliance with applicable laws of the territory.
4.2Refunds in respect of returned products shall be managed in accordance with the refunds page on the eCommerce, as may be amended from time to time. Our rules on refunds shall be exercised at our discretion, subject to applicable laws of the territory. We may offer refunds, at our discretion:
4.2.1in respect of the product price;
4.2.2in respect of local and/or international shipping fees (as stated on the refunds page); and
4.2.3 By way of store credits, vouchers, mobile money transfers, bank transfers, or such other methods as we may determine from time to time.
4.3Returned products shall be accepted and refunds issued by Black Curve, acting for and on behalf of the seller. Notwithstanding paragraphs 4.1 and 4.2 above, in respect of digital products or services and fresh food, Black Curve shall issue refunds in respect of failures in delivery only. Refunds of payment for such products for any other reasons shall be subject to the seller’s terms and conditions of sale.
4.4Changes 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
5.1You must make payments due under these general terms and conditions in accordance with the Payments Information and Guidelines on the eCommerce.
Store Credit
6.1Store credits may be earned and managed in accordance with the Black Curve Store Credit Terms and Conditions, as may be amended from time to time. Black Curve reserves the right to cancel or withdraw Black Curve store credit rewards for any reason in its discretion, including if we suspect fraud or foul play. You can view the Black Curve Store Credit terms and conditions and information about your Black Curve store credit account on our website and mobile application.
Promotions
7.1Promotions and competitions run by Black Curve and/or other promoters shall be managed in accordance with the Promotions Terms and Conditions, where applicable. You can view Promotions Terms and Conditions where they apply on our website or mobile application.
Rules about your content
8.1In these general terms and conditions, “your content” means:
8.1.1all 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 ecommerce for storage or publication, processing by, or onward transmission; and
8.1.2all communications on the ecommerce, including product reviews, feedback and comments.
8.2Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these general terms and conditions, must be accurate, complete and truthful.
8.4Your 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:
8.4.1any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;
8.4.2any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
8.4.3any contractual obligation owed to any person; or
8.4.4any court order.
8.3Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet, and must not:
8.3.1be offensive, obscene, indecent, pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
8.3.2depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner; or
8.3.3be blasphemous, in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
8.3.4be deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory;
8.3.5cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person; or
8.3.6constitute spam.
8.5You must not use our ecommerce to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our ecommerce, breach the provisions of these general terms and conditions.
8.6You must not submit to our ecommerce any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
8.7The review function on the ecommerce may be used to facilitate buyer reviews on products. You shall not use the review function or any other form of communication to provide inaccurate, inauthentic or fake reviews.
8.8You must not interfere with a transaction by: (i) contacting another user to buy or sell an item listed on the ecommerce outside of the ecommerce; or (ii) communicating with a user involved in an active or completed transaction to warn them away from a particular buyer, seller or item; or (iii) contacting another user with the intent to collect any payments.
8.9You acknowledge that all users of the ecommerce 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.
8.10We may periodically review your content and we reserve the right to remove any content in our discretion for any reason whatsoever.
8.11If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our ecommerce, or any material or activity that breaches these general terms and conditions, you may inform us by contacting us as provided at section 26.
Our rights to use your content
9.1You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content on our ecommerce, and across our marketing channels and any existing or future media.
9.2You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under section 9.1.
9.3You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under section 9.1.
9.4You 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.
9.5Without 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
10.1In this section 10 words “ecommerce” and “website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to Black Curve’s website.
10.2You may:
10.2.1view pages from our website in a web browser;
10.2.2download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
10.2.3print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;
10.2.4stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and
10.2.5use our ecommerce services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these general terms and conditions.
10.3In this section 10 words “ecommerce” and “website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to Black Curve’s websites and mobile applications.
10.4You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes in respect of selling or purchasing products on the ecommerce.
10.5Except as expressly permitted by these general terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
10.6Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
10.6.1republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
10.6.2sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
10.6.3show any material from our website in public;
10.6.4exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
10.6.5redistribute material from our website.
10.7Notwithstanding section 10.6, you may forward links to products on our website and redistribute our newsletter and promotional materials in print and electronic form to any person.
10.8We 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.
10.9You must not:
10.9.1use 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;
10.9.2use 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;
10.9.3hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
10.9.4probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
10.9.5circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
10.9.6use 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;
10.9.7impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);
10.9.8decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
10.9.9conduct 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;
10.9.10access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
10.9.11use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
10.9.12violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
10.9.13use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or
10.9.14do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
Copyright and trademarks
11.1Subject to the express provisions of these general terms and conditions:
11.1.1we, 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
11.1.2all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
11.2Black Curve’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.
11.3The 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
12.1Buyers agree to processing of their personal data in accordance with the terms of Black Curve’s Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice.
12.2Black Curve shall process all personal data obtained through the ecommerce and related services in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy.
12.3
Due diligence and audit rights
13.1We operate an anti-fraud and anti-money laundering compliance program and reserve the right to perform due diligence checks on all users of the ecommerce.
13.2You agree to provide to us all such information, documentation and access to your business premises as we may require:
13.2.1in order to verify your adherence to, and performance of, your obligations under these terms and conditions;
13.2.2for the purpose of disclosures pursuant to a valid order by a court or other governmental body; or
13.2.3as otherwise required by law or applicable regulation.
Black Curve’s role as a ecommerce
14.1You acknowledge that:
14.1.1
14.1.2the relevant seller of the product (whether Black Curve is the seller or whether it is a third party seller) shall at all times remain exclusively liable for the products they sell on the ecommerce; and
14.1.3in the event that there is an issue arising from the purchase of a product on the ecommerce, the buyer should seek recourse from the relevant seller of the product by following the process set out in Black Curve’s Dispute Resolution Policy.
14.2
14.2.1the relevant seller warrants and represents the completeness and accuracy of their information published on our ecommerce relating to their products;
14.2.2the relevant seller warrants and represents that the material on the ecommerce is up to date; and
14.2.3if a buyer has a complaint relating to the accuracy or completeness of the product information received from a seller (including where Black Curve is the seller), the buyer can seek recourse from the relevant seller by following the process set out in the Black Curve Dispute Resolution Policy.
14.3We do not warrant or represent that the ecommerce will operate without fault; or that the ecommerce or any service on the ecommerce will remain available during the occurrence of events beyond Black Curve’s control (force majeure events) which include but are not limited to; flood, drought, earthquake or other natural disasters; hacking, viruses, malware or other malicious software attacks on the ecommerce; terrorist attacks, civil war, civil commotion or riots; war, threat of or preparation for war; epidemics or pandemics; or extra-constitutional events or circumstances which materially and adversely affect the political or macro-economic stability of the territory as a whole.
14.4We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our ecommerce services, and to stop publishing our ecommerce, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any ecommerce services, or if we stop publishing the ecommerce. This is without prejudice to your rights in respect of any unfulfilled orders or other existing liabilities of Black Curve.
14.5
14.6We do not guarantee any commercial results concerning the use of the ecommerce.
14.7To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to section 15.1 below, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these general terms and conditions, our ecommerce and the use of our ecommerce.
Limitations and exclusions of liability
15.1Nothing in these general terms and conditions will:
15.1.1limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
15.1.2exclude any liabilities or statutory rights that may not be excluded under applicable law.
15.2The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section 15 and elsewhere in these general terms and conditions:
15.2.1are subject to section 15.1; and
15.2.2govern 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.
15.3In 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.
15.4Our 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 ecommerce shall constitute a separate contract for the purpose of this section 15.4.
15.5Notwithstanding section 15.4 above, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature, including in respect of:
15.5.1any losses occasioned by any interruption or dysfunction to the website;
15.5.2any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;
15.5.3any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill;
15.5.4any loss or corruption of any data, database or software; or
15.5.5any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
15.6We 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 ecommerce 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).
15.7Our ecommerce 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
16.1You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against:
16.1.1any 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 ecommerce or any breach by you of any provision of these general terms and conditions or the Black Curve codes, policies or guidelines; and
16.1.2any VAT liability or other tax liability that we may incur in relation to any sale, supply or purchase made through our ecommerce, 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
17.1If we permit the registration of an account on our ecommerce it will remain open indefinitely, subject to these general terms and conditions.
17.2If you breach these general terms and conditions, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these general terms and conditions or any Black Curve codes, policies or guidelines in any way we may:
17.2.1temporarily suspend your access to our ecommerce;
17.2.2permanently prohibit you from accessing our ecommerce;
17.2.3block computers using your IP address from accessing our ecommerce;
17.2.4contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our ecommerce;
17.2.5suspend or delete your account on our ecommerce; and/or
17.2.6commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.
17.3Where we suspend, prohibit or block your access to our ecommerce or a part of our ecommerce 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
18.1
Hierarchy
19.1Should these general terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions, and the Black Curve codes, policies and guidelines be in conflict, these terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions and the Black Curve codes, policies and guidelines shall prevail in the order here stated.
Variation
20.1We may revise these general terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions, and the Black Curve codes, policies and guidelines from time to time.
20.2The revised general terms and conditions shall apply from the date of publication on the ecommerce.
No waiver
21.1No waiver of any breach of any provision of these general terms and conditions shall be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any other breach of that provision or any breach of any other provision of these general terms and conditions.
Severability
22.1If 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.
22.2If 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
23.1You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.
23.2You 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
24.1A 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.
24.2The 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
25.1These general terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the territory.
25.2Any disputes relating to these general terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the territory.
Our company details and notices
26.1You can contact us by using the contact details listed in Appendix 1.
26.2
26.3You consent to receive notices electronically from us. We may provide all communications and information related to your use of the ecommerce in electronic format, either by posting to our website or application, or by email to the email address on your account. All such communications will be deemed to be notices in writing and received by and properly given to you.