OBAFEMI: TERMS OF USE
Welcome to Obafemi.
This document is an electronic record in terms of Information Technology Act,
2000 and published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3) of the
Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require
publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and Terms of Use for
access or usage of Obafemi marketplace platform - www.Obafemi.in (hereinafter
referred to as "Platform")
The Platform is owned by Obafemi, having its registered office at
XVII/2654, “City Centre”, 2nd floor, Taliparamba, Kannur (District),
Kerala -670141, India.
Your use of the Obafemi and services and tools are governed by the
following terms and conditions ("Terms of Use") as applicable
to the Obafemi including the applicable policies which are incorporated herein
by way of reference. By mere use of the Obafemi, you shall be contracting with
Obafemi, the owner of the Platform. These terms and conditions including the
policies constitute your binding obligations with Obafemi.
For the purpose of these Terms of Use, wherever the context so requires
"You" or "User" shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to become a
buyer on Platform by providing data while registering on the Platform as
Registered User. The term "Obafemi","We","Us","Our" shall mean
Obafemi.
When You use any of the services provided by Us through the Platform,
including but not limited to, (e.g. Product Reviews, Seller Reviews), You will
be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable
to such service, and they shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Terms of
Use and shall be considered as part and parcel of this Terms of Use. We reserve
the right, at Our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of
these Terms of Use, at any time without any prior written notice to You. You
shall ensure to review these Terms of Use periodically for updates/changes.
Your continued use of the Platform following the posting of changes will mean
that You accept and agree to the revisions. As long as You comply with these
Terms of Use, we grant You a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited
privilege to enter and use the Platform. By impliedly or expressly accepting
these Terms of Use, You also accept and agree to be bound by Obafemi Policies
including but not limited to Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.
1. User Account, Password, and
Security:
If You use the Platform, you shall be responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your Display Name and Password and You shall be responsible
for all activities that occur under your Display Name and Password. You agree
that if You provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, we shall have the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or
block access of your membership on the Platform.
You agree to
- immediately notify Obafemi
of any unauthorized use / breach of your password or account and
- ensure that you exit from your account at the
end of each session.
2. Services Offered:
Obafemi provides a number of Internet-based services through the
Platform. One such Service enables Users to purchase original merchandise such
as footwear and accessories. The Products can be purchased through the Platform
through various methods of payments offered. The sale/purchase of Products
shall be additionally governed by specific policies of sale, like cancellation
policy, exchange policy, return policy, etc. (which are found on the FAQ tab on
the Platform and all of which are incorporated here by reference). It is
clarified that at the time of creating a return request, users are required to
confirm (via a check box click) that the product being returned is unused and
has the original tags intact. If the product returned by the user is used,
damaged or if the original tags are missing, the user’s return request shall be
declined, and the said product shall be re-shipped back to the customer. In the
event that the return request is declined, the user shall not be eligible for a
refund, and Obafemi assumes no liability in this regard. Further, in the event
that the user fails to accept the receipt of the said re-shipped product, the
user shall continue to be not eligible for a refund, and Obafemi assumes no
liability with respect to the return or refund for the said re-shipped product.
In addition, these Terms of Use may be further supplemented by Product specific
conditions, which may be displayed with that Product.
Obafemi does not warrant that Product description or other content on
the Platform is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free and
assumes no liability in this regard.
3. User Conduct and Rules on the Platform:
You agree, undertake and confirm that Your use of the Platform shall be
strictly governed by the following binding principles:
- You shall not host, display,
upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information which:
- belongs
to another person and to which You do not have any right to
- is
grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene,
pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy,
hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or
encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any
manner whatever
- is
misleading in any way
- involves
the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", or
unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"
- promotes
illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene,
defamatory or libellous
- infringes
upon or violates any third party's rights including, but not limited to,
intellectual property rights, rights of privacy (including without
limitation unauthorized disclosure of a person's name, email address,
physical address or phone number) or rights of publicity
- contains
restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images
(those not linked to or from another accessible page)
- provides
instructional information about illegal activities such as making or
buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or
creating computer viruses
- contains
video, photographs, or images of another person (with a minor or an
adult).
- tries
to gain unauthorized access or exceeds the scope of authorized access to
the Platform or to profiles, blogs, communities, account information,
bulletins, friend request, or other areas of the Platform or solicits
passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful
purposes from other users
- interferes
with another USER's use and enjoyment of the Platform or any other
individual's User and enjoyment of similar services
- infringes
any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third
party's trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be
fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen products
- violates
any law for the time being in force
- threatens
the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly
relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to
the commission of any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any
offence or is insulting any other nation
- shall
not be false, inaccurate or misleading
- shall
not create liability for Us or cause Us to lose (in whole or in part) the
services of Our internet service provider ("ISPs") or other
suppliers
- A
User may be considered fraudulent or loss to business due to fraudulent
activity if any of the following scenarios are met:
- Users
do not reply to the payment verification mail sent by Obafemi
- Users
fail to produce adequate documents during the payment details
verification
- Misuse
of another User's phone/email
- Users
use invalid address, email and phone no.
- Overuse
of a voucher code
- Use
of a special voucher not tagged to the email ID used.
- Users
return the wrong product
- Users
refuse to pay for an order
- Users
involved in the snatch and run of any order
- Miscellaneous
activities conducted with the sole intention to cause loss to
business/revenue to Obafemi
- User
with a very high return rate
- Repeated
request for monetary compensation for fake/used order
- Obafemi
may cancel any order that classify as 'Fraud orders' under certain
criteria at any stage of the product delivery. An order can be classified
as 'Fraud Order' if it meets with the below mentioned criteria, and any
additional criteria as defined by Obafemi:
- Products
ordered are not for self-consumption but for commercial resale
- Multiple
orders placed for same product at the same address, depending on the
product category.
- Bulk
quantity of the same product ordered
- Invalid
address given in order details
- Any
malpractice used to place the order
- Any
promotional voucher used for placing the Fraud Order' may not be refunded
- Any
order placed using a technological glitch/loophole.
- You
shall not use the Platform for any unlawful and fraudulent purposes, which
may cause annoyance and inconvenience and abuses any policy and rules of
the company and interrupt or causes to interrupt, damages the use by other
Users of Obafemi.
- You
shall not use any false e-mail address, impersonates any person or entity,
or otherwise misleads Obafemi by sharing multiple address and phone
numbers or transacting with mala fide intentions.
- You
shall not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape",
"robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program,
algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to
access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Platform or any
Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure
or presentation of the Platform or any Content, to obtain or attempt to
obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not
purposely made available through the Platform. We reserve Our right to bar
any such activity.
- You
shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of
the Platform, or any other systems or networks connected to the Platform
or to any server, computer, network, or to any of the services offered on
or through the Platform, by hacking, password "mining" or any
other illegitimate means.
- You
may not pretend that You are, or that You represent, someone else, or
impersonate any other individual or entity
- You
shall at all times ensure full compliance with the applicable provisions
of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules thereunder as applicable
and as amended from time to time and also all applicable Domestic laws,
rules and regulations (including the provisions of any applicable Exchange
Control Laws or Regulations in Force) and International Laws, Foreign
Exchange Laws, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations (including, but not
limited to Sales Tax/VAT, Income Tax, Octroi, Service Tax, Central Excise,
Custom Duty, Local Levies) regarding Your use of Our service and Your
listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of
products or services. You shall not engage in any transaction in an item
or service, which is prohibited by the provisions of any applicable law
including exchange control laws or regulations for the time being in
force.
- From
time to time, you shall be responsible for providing information relating
to the products or services proposed to be sold by You. In this
connection, You undertake that all such information shall be accurate in
all respects. You shall not exaggerate or over emphasize the attributes of
such products or services so as to mislead other Users in any manner.
- You
shall not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Users of the
Platform to buy or sell any products or services, including, but not
limited to, products or services related to that being displayed on the
Platform or related to us.
- The
Content posted does not necessarily reflect Obafemi views. In no event
shall Obafemi assume or have any responsibility or liability for any
Content posted or for any claims, damages or losses resulting from use of
Content and/or appearance of Content on the Platform. You hereby represent
and warrant that You have all necessary rights in and to all Content which
You provide and all information it contains and that such Content shall
not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties or contain
any libellous, tortious, or otherwise unlawful information.
- Obafemi hereby disclaims any guarantees of
exactness as to the finish, appearance, size, colour etc., of the final
Product as ordered by the User. Obafemi Return & Exchange Policy
offers you the option to return or exchange items purchased on Obafemi
within the return/exchange period (Please read the Product Detail Page to
see the number of days up to which a product can be returned/exchanged,
post-delivery). In case of return of the purchased item, please refer to
the "Return Policy" on our Obafemi.
4. E-Platform for Communication:
You agree,
understand and acknowledge that Obafemi is an online platform that enables you
to purchase products listed on the Platform at the price indicated therein at
any time.
5. Indemnity:
You shall indemnify and hold harmless Obafemi, its owner, licensee,
affiliates, subsidiaries, group companies (as applicable) and their respective
officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or demand, or
actions including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party or
penalty imposed due to or arising out of Your breach of this Terms of Use,
privacy Policy and other Policies, or Your violation of any law, rules or
regulations or the rights (including infringement of intellectual property
rights) of a third party.
6. Trademark, Copyright and Restriction:
Platform is controlled and operated by Obafemi. All material on
Platform, including images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, are
protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights.
Material on Obafemi is solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You must
not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute such
material in any way, including by email or other electronic means and whether
directly or indirectly and You must not assist any other person to do so.
Without the prior written consent of the owner, modification of the materials,
use of the materials on any other Obafemi or networked computer environment or
use of the materials for any purpose other than personal, non-commercial use is
a violation of the copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights, and is
prohibited. Any use for which You receive any remuneration, whether in money or
otherwise, is a commercial use for the purposes of this clause. It is expressly
clarified that You will retain ownership and shall solely be responsible for
any content that You provide or upload when using any Service, including any
text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video or any other
material which you may upload, transmit or store when making use of Our various
Service. However, We reserve the right to use/reproduce any content uploaded by
You and You agree to grant royalty free, irrevocably, unconditionally,
perpetually and worldwide right to Us to use the content for reasonable
business purpose.
7. Limitation of Liability:
In no event shall Obafemi be liable for any indirect, punitive,
incidental, special, consequential damages or any other damages resulting from:
- the use or the inability to
use the Services or Products
- Obafemi shall not be held responsible for
non-availability of the Obafemi during periodic maintenance operations or
any unplanned suspension of access to the Obafemi. The User understands
and agrees that any material and/or data downloaded at Obafemi is done
entirely at Users own discretion and risk and they will be solely
responsible for any damage to their mobile or loss of data that results
from the download of such material and/or data. To the maximum extend that
is permissible under law, Obafemi’s liability shall be limited to an
amount equal to the Products purchased value bought by You. Obafemi shall
not be liable for any dispute or disagreement between Users
8. Termination:
Obafemi may suspend
or terminate your use of the Obafemi or any Service if it believes, in its sole
and absolute discretion that you have infringed, breached, violated, abused, or
unethically manipulated or exploited any term of these Terms of Service or
anyway otherwise acted unethically. Notwithstanding anything in this clause,
these Terms of Service will survive indefinitely unless and until Obafemi
chooses to terminate them.
- If You or Obafemi terminates
your use of the Platform or any Service, Obafemi may delete any content or
other materials relating to your use of the Service and Obafemi will have
no liability to you or any third party for doing so. However, your transactions
details may be preserved by Obafemi for purposes of tax or regulatory
compliance.
- Obafemi
may unilaterally terminate Your account on any event as mentioned in the
Terms of Use. Any credits earned through loyalty or referral program,
Obafemi credit and pending refunds if any will be forfeited in such case.
Returns/Refund for such Users shall be at the sole discretion of Obafemi.
- If You use any false e-mail address or use the
portal for any unlawful and fraudulent purposes, which may cause annoyance
and inconvenience and abuses any policy and rules of the company or
mislead Obafemi by sharing multiple address and phone numbers or
transacting with malafide intentions then Obafemi reserves the right to
refuse access to the portal, terminate accounts including any linked
accounts without notice to you.
9. Jurisdictional Issues/Sale in India Only:
Unless otherwise specified, the material on the Platform is presented
solely for the purpose of sale in India. Obafemi make no representation that
materials in the Platform are appropriate or available for use in other
locations/Countries other than India. Those who choose to access Platform from
other locations/Countries other than India do so on their own initiative and
Obafemi is not responsible for supply of products/refund for the products
ordered from other locations/Countries other than India, compliance with local
laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
10. Governing Law:
These terms shall be governed by and constructed in accordance with the
laws of India without reference to conflict of laws principles and disputes
arising in relation hereto shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of
courts, tribunals, fora, applicable authorities at India
11. Disclaimer:
You acknowledge and undertake that you are accessing the services on the
Platform and transacting at your own risk and are using your best and prudent
judgment before entering into any transactions through Obafemi. Hereby
expressly disclaim and any all responsibility and liability in that regard. We
shall not mediate or resolve any dispute or disagreement
Delivery Related - User agrees and acknowledges that any claims
regarding order delivery (including non-receipt/ non- delivery of order or
signature verification) shall be notified to Obafemi within 5 days from the
alleged date of delivery of product reflecting on the Obafemi portal. Non
notification by You of non-receipt or non-delivery within the time period specified
shall be construed as a deemed delivery in respect of that transaction. Obafemi
disclaims any liability or responsibility for claims regarding non-delivery,
non-receipt of order (including signature verification in Proof of delivery)
after 5 days from the alleged date of delivery of product reflecting on the
Obafemi portal.
12. Cart Notification
You understand
that, in the event selected products in your cart is out of the inventory.