Marketplace Books Trade City User Agreement
Introduction
Welcome to Marketplace.bookstradecity.com interactive magazine with Listings feature online. By using the services on Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website (“Site”) you are agreeing to the following terms. Before you may become a member of Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website you must read and accept all of the terms and conditions in, and linked to, this User Agreement and the Marketplace.bookstradecity.com Privacy Policy.
Intellectual Property
All content included on this Site but not limited to text, graphics, logos, trademarks, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilation of all content are the property of the owner and the creator of the Site or its third parties, where applicable, and protected by the United Kingdom and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of the owner and the creator of this site or its software suppliers and protected by United Kingdom and international copyright laws.
When affiliate or any third party products are used on our site, the copyright for those products belong to the creators of such products.
Restrictions on use of Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website.
While using Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website, you will not:
- Post content or items in an inappropriate category or areas on our site and services.
- Violate any laws, third party rights, or our policies.
- Use our site or services if you are not able to form legally binding contracts, are under the age of 18, or are temporarily or indefinitely suspended from our site.
- Fail to deliver payment for items purchased by you.
- Fail to deliver items purchased from you, unless the buyer fails to meet the posted terms, or you cannot authenticate the buyer’s identity.
- Manipulate the price of any item or interfere with other user’s listings.
- Circumvent or manipulate our fee structure, the billing process, or fees owed to Marketplace.bookstradecity.com.
- Post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, or other similar content (including personal information).
- Transfer your Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website account and User ID to another party without our consent.
- Distribute or post spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes.
- Distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm Marketplace.bookstradecity.com, or the interests or property of Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website users.
- Copy, modify, or distribute content from the Sites and Marketplace.bookstradecity.com copyrights and trademarks.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses, without their consent.
Advertising your business on Marketplace.bookstradecity.com
The information you provide in relation to you (Private Seller) or your business must be accurate and truthful.
You must have the permission of the copyright owner for any images, videos or media, which you upload to the site.
Customer Reviews and Feedback
When you create a Business Vendor page on our website you accept that your company or activity (for Individuals) can be reviewed by your customers and other users of the Site. We reserve the right to remove any reviews that haven’t been posted by the customers themselves or where we believe the reviews may be automatically generated by software.
In case if your company or activity receives a negative review you will have the ability to respond to it by posting your side of the story. By publicly demonstrating your level of customer support you can “soften” the negative review.
The negative reviews will be removed from our Site if:
- They were posted anonymously or under a false name
- They fail to give any details in support of their dissatisfaction in services or goods received.
- Do not conform to our terms and conditions
Abusing Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website
Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website and our community of users work together to keep the Site and its services working properly and to keep our online marketplace safe. Please report problems, offensive content, and policy violations to us.
Without limiting other remedies, we may limit, suspend or terminate our service and user accounts, prohibit access to our website, delay or remove hosted content, and take technical and legal steps to keep users off the sites if we think that they are creating problems, possible legal liabilities, or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our policies. We also reserve the right to cancel unconfirmed accounts or accounts that have been inactive for a long time.
Fees and Services
Joining Marketplace.bookstradecity.com is free for Users who want to browse our Site and interact with Businesses.
Business / Vendor’s Store account
Creating a Business Store /Shop Page has free and paid membership packages. Please see our Packages page to see the fee structure and packages. We may choose to temporarily change the fees for our services for promotional events or new services, and such changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional event or new service on the site. If you wish to sell your Books and related ephemera Products on our Site we will charge a 5% commission Fee upon the sale of an item through Marketplace.bookstradecity.com, which will be deducted from your sale transactions.
Unless otherwise stated, all fees are in GB Pounds (£). You are responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes (if you are registered for taxes) associated with our site and services in a timely manner. For typical transactions our fees will be deducted from your sale transactions. We reserve the right, in certain circumstances including but not limited to fraudulent activities, to recover or apply additional fees to your Business account.
Any changes in our fees are effective after we provide you with at least fourteen days’ notice by posting the changes on the Marketplace.bookstradecity.com site.
Subscriptions to our learning area
You can subscribe to any or all our training/masterclass courses / lessons/ videos, which we provide directly or through affiliate third parties online for a user’s private, personal educational purposes only. All published materials on our Site are protected by the Copyright laws of the United Kingdom and International laws (please see our Copyright policy).
Any subscription fees for teaching materials provided through our Site are payable.
Cancellation of your subscription
You can cancel your subscriptions at any time.
Any paid fees are non-refundable.
Member Communication
Your Account on Marketplace.bookstradecity.com website.
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. Marketplace.bookstradecity.com does not sell products directly to children, but it sells them to adults, who can purchase with a credit card or other permitted payment method. If you are under 18, you may use our Site only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Marketplace.bookstradecity.com reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.
It is against our policy for sellers to post email addresses, phone numbers, and URLs in other areas where buyers may find them including but not limited to store welcome messages, books related products descriptions and businesses’ profiles. Should you wish to display your email address, phone numbers and links to your website, please subscribe to an appropriate Package.
Your Content
Marketplace.bookstradecity.com does not own the content (including but not limited to images, item descriptions, and business listing descriptions) you provide to the Site. However, when you give us content you grant us license to use any of your published contents for marketing purposes so that we do not violate any rights you may have in the content.
You grant Marketplace.bookstradecity.com a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, trademark, publicity and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future. Additionally, you grant Marketplace.bookstradecity.com the right to use your content for the purpose of marketing, merchandising, and advertising in media including, but not limited to, the Marketplace.bookstradecity.com site.
Liability
You will not hold Marketplace.bookstradecity.com responsible for other users’ content, actions or inactions, or items they list. The Site is a venue to allow anyone to offer, sell and buy books or other ephemera products, to post updates about your activities, to comment and rate other registered members accounts. We are not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. We have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, safety or legality of items advertised, the truth or accuracy of users’ content or listings, the ability of sellers to sell items, the ability of buyers to pay for items, or that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.
Marketplace.bookstradecity.com does not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer, and nothing in this agreement shall modify the governing provisions under which legal ownership of an item is transferred upon physical delivery of the item to the buyer by the seller. Unless the buyer and the seller agree otherwise, the buyer will become the item’s lawful owner upon physical receipt of the item from the seller. Further, we cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our services, including Marketplace.bookstradecity.com and operation of the sites may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control.
Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted, we exclude all implied warranties, terms and conditions. We are not liable for any loss of money, goodwill, or reputation, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your use of our sites and services. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.
Regardless of the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or to any third party is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to us in the 12 months prior to the action, giving rise to the liability, and (b) £100.
Release
If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our officers, directors and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.
Access and Interference
Much of the information on the site is updated on a real-time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to Marketplace.bookstradecity.com by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission.
Additionally, you agree that you will not:
- Take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.
- Copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, create derivative works from, distribute, or publicly display, transmit or otherwise use Marketplace.bookstradecity.com content in any way except for your personal use.
- Use the Site to create, amend, update or verify any databases, directories, customer lists, mailing lists or other records.
- Disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, broadcast modify.
- Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the sites; or
- Bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the site.
Privacy
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes. We use your information only as described in the Marketplace.bookstradecity.com Privacy Policy. We view protection of users’ privacy as a very important community principle. We store and process your information on computers that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices. You can access and modify the information you provide us and choose not to receive certain communications by signing-in to your account. For a complete description of how we use and protect your personal information see our Marketplace.bookstradecity.com Privacy Policy. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.
Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable solicitors’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
No Agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.
Notices
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, legal notices shall be served on Marketplace.bookstradecity.com or to the email address you provide to Marketplace.bookstradecity.com during the registration process (in your case). Notice shall be deemed given 48 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, we may give you legal notice by mail to the address provided during the registration process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given three days after the date of mailing.
Resolution of Disputes
If a dispute arises between you and Marketplace.bookstradecity.com, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, you and Marketplace.bookstradecity.com agree that we will resolve any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out of this Agreement or our services (a “Claim”) in accordance with one of the subsections below or as we and you otherwise agree in writing. Before resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly. We will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation or arbitration, as alternatives to litigation.
Law and Forum for Disputes
This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the United Kingdom as they apply to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within the United Kingdom between United Kingdom citizens and residents, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree that any claim or dispute you may have against Marketplace.bookstradecity.com must be resolved by a court located in the United Kingdom, except as otherwise agreed by the parties or as described in the Arbitration Option paragraph below. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located the United Kingdom for the purpose of litigating all such claims or disputes.
General
If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Headings are for reference purposes only and do not limit the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. We do not guarantee we will take action against all breaches of this Agreement.
We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. Except as stated elsewhere, all amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted. Additionally, we will notify you through the Marketplace.bookstradecity.com site. This Agreement may not be otherwise amended except in a writing signed by you and us. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof.
Last updated – 1 January 2020
