Souqbox Terms and Conditions

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using this site and
launching an online service using SouqBox

What’s in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website SOUQBOX (“our site ”) to create and publish your own marketplace or ecommerce site (“your site ”).

Who we are and how to contact us

souqbox.io is a site operated by SouqBox Ltd Limited (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 10700701 and have our registered office at Euro House, Abex Rd, Newbury, RG14 5EY. Our VAT number is 267840080.

To contact us, please email getstarted@souqbox.net or telephone our support line on +44(0)2035102807.

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
  • Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Our Cookie Policy which sets out information about the cookies on our site. If you launch a site through SouqBox you warrant that you accept responsibility for the rules of trading on that site and all associated legal requirements are your responsibility to adhere to.

Payment & Commercial considerations

You agree to the commercial terms offered by SouqBox which may vary from time to time at SouqBox’s discretion. Souqbox will charge you monthly for the use of the services and failure to make payment will result in SouqBox disabling your site after the initial site suspension notice period. We will contact you to inform you that payment has not been collected and that unless payment is made as requested in 7 days. In this scenario SouqBox will retain your data for 28 days and at any time in that 28 day period, full settlement will enable your site to be reactivated to your end users.

After the 28 day suspension period lapses and where no settlement has been reached by you and SouqBox, we have the right to delete your site including but not limited to all content, branding, adverts, user records and associated data.

We may make changes to these terms and our site

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. We may update and change our site from time to time.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your SouqBox company account are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at support@souqbox.net

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Once you create a marketplace or public facing site using the SouqBox technologies, you are responsible for material hosted on that site. SouqBox does not accept responsibility for preventing unauthorised end users on your site creating content that breaches either your terms and conditions or any law prohibiting said content.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

This website includes information and materials uploaded by other users of the site. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views and representations expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us on admin@souqbox.net

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
  • We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which are summarised below and published from time to time on SouqBox.io;
  • Payments – all payments made within your SouqBox hosted site are managed by 3rd party payment providers (PSPs). You accept the terms and conditions with those PSPs and that the relationship you have with them is private, independent of SouqBox and as such SouqBox accepts no liability for any issues you may encounter with said PSPs.
  • Logistics and Shipping – You warrant that SouqBox provides only logging capability on shipping and in no way carries liability for any courier bookings that are made to deliver product through your website.
  • Contacting end users. Souqbox will send branded communications on your behalf to your customers however the content of these emails refers to company information which you provide. Further, you warrant that souqbox is not responsible for that content.
  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you grant to us and other users of our site an irrevocable licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties to the extent necessary to use this site.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their rights.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact admin@souqbox.net

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

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