Neibrkart Seller Agreement
THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT GOVERN YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES THROUGH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS AND IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU OR THE BUSINESS YOU REPRESENT (“YOU“) AND NEIBRKART. BY REGISTERING FOR OR USING THE SERVICES, YOU (ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF OR THE BUSINESS YOU REPRESENT) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE SERVICE TERMS AND PROGRAMME POLICIES FOR EACH SERVICE YOU REGISTER FOR OR USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NEIBRKART SITE.
As used in this Agreement, “we,” “us,” and “Neibrkart” means the Neibrkart. If there is any conflicts in the terms you are required to notify us on the same in writing.
1. Enrolment
To begin the enrolment process, you must complete the seller registration process on the website. The application shall be reviewed and eligible parties shall be allowed to sell on Neibrkart. Use of the Services is limited to parties that can lawfully enter into and form contracts under applicable Law. As part of the application, you must provide us with your (or your business’) legal name, address, phone number, e-mail address and applicable tax registration details. We may at any time cease providing any or all of the Services at our sole discretion and without notice.
2. Service Fee Payments
Fee details are described fully in the applicable Service Terms. You are responsible for all of your expenses in connection with this Agreement, unless this Agreement or the applicable Service Terms provide otherwise. For the Neibrkart Site that you register for or use a Service in connection with, we may require you to submit valid bank account information for a bank account in your name that is with a bank located within India and enabled for Your Account (which functionality may be modified or discontinued by us at any time without notice) (with respect to the Neibrkart Site, “Your Bank Account“). You will use only a name you are authorized to use in connection with the Service and will update such information as necessary to ensure that it at all times remains accurate and complete. You authorize us to verify your information (including any updated information), At Neibrkart’s option, all payments to you will be made to Your Bank Account, via cheque or electronic transfers or other means as specified by us. You agree that Neibrkart shall not be liable for any failure to make payments to you on account of incomplete or inaccurate information provided by you with respect to Your Bank Account.
We may choose to either (a) offset any amounts that are payable by you to us (in reimbursement or otherwise) against any payments we may make to you, or (b) invoice you for amounts due to us, in which case you will pay the invoiced amounts upon receipt. Except as provided otherwise, all amounts contemplated in this Agreement will be expressed and displayed in the Local Currency, and all payments contemplated by this Agreement will be made in the Local Currency. If we discover erroneous or duplicate transactions, then we reserve the right to seek reimbursement from you by deducting from future payments owed to you or seeking such reimbursement from you by any other lawful means; provided that the foregoing will not limit your rights to pursue any good faith dispute with Neibrkart concerning whether any amounts are payable or due.
If we reasonably conclude based on information available to us that your actions and/or performance in connection with the Agreement may result in a significant number of customer disputes, chargebacks or other claims in connection with the Neibrkart Site, then we may, in our sole discretion and subject to applicable Law, delay initiating any payments to be made or that are otherwise due to you under this Agreement for the shorter of: (a) a period of ninety (90) calendar days following the initial date of suspension; or (b) completion of any investigation(s) regarding your actions and/or performance in connection with the Agreement. You agree that we are entitled to the interest, if any, paid on balances maintained as deposits in our bank accounts.
3. Term and Termination
The term of this Agreement will start on the date of your completed registration on our website is accepted (the “Effective Date“) and continue until terminated in writing by us or you. We may terminate or suspend this Agreement or any Service immediately in our sole discretion by notice to you for any reason at any time. You may terminate this Agreement or any Service for any reason at any time by the means then specified by Neibrkart therefor. Termination or suspension of a Service will not terminate or suspend any other Service unless explicitly provided. Upon termination, all rights and obligations of the parties under this Agreement will terminate, except that Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 18 will survive termination. Any terms that expressly survive according to the applicable Service Terms will also survive termination.
4. Licence
You grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable right and licence during the Term and for as long thereafter as you are permitted to grant the said licence under applicable Law to use, reproduce, perform, display (public communication), distribute, adapt, modify, re-format, create and exploit derivative works of, and otherwise commercially or non-commercially exploit in any manner, any and all of Your Materials, and to sublicense the foregoing rights to our Affiliates and operators of Neibrkart; provided, however, that we will not alter any of Your Trademarks from the form provided by you (except to re-size trademarks to the extent necessary for presentation, so long as the relative proportions of such trademarks remain the same) and will comply with your removal requests as to specific uses of Your Trademarks (provided you are unable to do so using the standard functionality made available to you via the applicable Neibrkart Site or Services); provided further, however, that nothing in this Agreement will prevent or impair our right to use Your Materials without your consent to the extent that such use is allowable without a license from you or your Affiliates under applicable Law (e.g., fair use under copyright law, referential use under trademark law, or valid license from a third party).
5. Representations
You represent and warrant to us that: (a) if you are a business, you are duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the territory in which your business is registered and are a resident of India for income tax purposes every financial year; (b) you have all requisite right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and perform your obligations and grant the rights, licenses and authorizations you grant hereunder; (c) you and all of your subcontractors, agents and suppliers will comply with all applicable Laws (including but not limited to procuring and maintaining applicable tax registrations) in your performance of your obligations and exercise of your rights under this Agreement; and (d) you and your financial institution(s) are not subject to sanctions or otherwise designated on any list of prohibited or restricted parties or owned or controlled by such a party
6. Indemnification
You release us from, and agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us (Neibrkart, operating staffs and other affiliates if any) against, any claim, loss, damage, settlement, cost, taxes, expense or other liability (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) (each, a “Claim“) arising from or related to: (a) your actual or alleged breach of any obligations in this Agreement; (b) any sales channels owned or operated by you, Your Products (including the offer, sale, fulfilment, refund, adjustment, or return thereof), Your Materials, any actual or alleged infringement of any Intellectual Property Rights by any of the foregoing, and any personal injury, death or property damage related thereto; or (c) Your Taxes. You will use counsel reasonably satisfactory to us to defend each indemnified Claim. If at any time we determine in our sole discretion that any indemnified Claim might adversely affect us, we may take exclusive control of the defense at our expense. You may not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement of a Claim without our prior written consent, which may not be unreasonably withheld.
7. Disclaimer
a. THE NEIBRKART SITE AND THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT, SOFTWARE, FUNCTIONS, MATERIALS AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE OR PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES, ARE PROVIDED “AS-IS.” AS A USER OF THE SERVICES, YOU ACCESS THE NEIBRKART SITE, THE SERVICES AND ANY ONLINE PORTAL OR TOOL PROVIDED BY NEIBRKART TO HELP YOU AVAIL THE SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE AND OUR AFFILIATES WAIVE AND DISCLAIM: (1) ANY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, DECLARATIONS OR GUARANTEES REGARDING THIS AGREEMENT, THE SERVICES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, DECLARATIONS OR GUARANTEES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT; (2) IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE OF TRADE; AND (3) ANY OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, RIGHT, CLAIM OR REMEDY IN TORT, WHETHER OR NOT ARISING FROM OUR NEGLIGENCE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE NEIBRKART SITE OR THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR BE AVAILABLE, TIMELY, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, AND WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SYSTEM FAILURES OR OTHER INTERRUPTIONS THAT MAY AFFECT THE RECEIPT, PROCESSING, ACCEPTANCE, COMPLETION OR SETTLEMENT OF ANY TRANSACTIONS.SOME JURISDICTIONS’ LAWS DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF AN IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN WHICH CASE THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND WE AND OUR AFFILIATES DISCLAIM TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON- INFRINGEMENT OR QUIET ENJOYMENT.
b. BECAUSE NEIBRKART IS NOT INVOLVED IN TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN CUSTOMERS AND SELLERS OR OTHER PARTICIPANT DEALINGS, IF A DISPUTE ARISES BETWEEN ONE OR MORE PARTICIPANTS, EACH OF YOU RELEASE NEIBRKART (AND ITS AGENTS, AFFILIATES AND EMPLOYEES) FROM CLAIMS, DEMANDS, AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH DISPUTES.
8. Limitation of Liability
WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, DELICT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY, ANY TYPE OF CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY OR OTHER THEORY) OR OTHERWISE) TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR COST OF COVER, RECOVERY OR RECOUPMENT OF ANY INVESTMENT MADE BY YOU OR YOUR AFFILIATES IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE, BUSINESS, OR DATA OR PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF NEIBRKART HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH COSTS OR DAMAGES. FURTHER, EXCEPT IN CASE OF GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILFUL MISCONDUCT, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY WILL NOT EXCEED AT ANY TIME THE TOTAL AMOUNTS DURING THE PRIOR SIX MONTH PERIOD PAID BY YOU TO NEIBRKART IN CONNECTION WITH THE PARTICULAR SERVICE AND THE NEIBRKART SITE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
10. Tax Matters
As between the parties, you will be responsible for the collection and payment of any and all of Your Taxes together with the filing of all relevant returns, such as service tax, VAT / CST, goods and services tax, cesses or other transaction taxes, and issuing valid invoices/ credit notes/ debit notes where required. Neibrkart is not responsible for collecting, remitting or reporting any service tax, VAT / CST, goods and services tax or other taxes arising from such sale. You are solely responsible for preparing, making and filing any tax audit report and statutory reports and other filings and responding to any tax or financial audits.
Unless stated otherwise, any and all fees payable by you pursuant to this Agreement are exclusive of all value added, service, sales, use, goods and services tax and other similar taxes, and you will pay any taxes that are imposed and payable on such amounts. If we are required by law or by administration thereof to collect any value added, service, sales, use, goods and services tax or similar taxes from you, you will pay such taxes to us. You will provide all necessary information including goods and services tax registered address, registration numbers, invoice mismatch details in a timely manner, to enable us to provide, report or correct goods and services tax invoices. Based on information provided, Neibrkart will deduce the location of recipient, the billing details, place of supply and applicable taxes.
If for any reason, any income tax or withholding tax or tax collection at source or such other taxes under applicable Law are determined to be deducted and deposited on any payments or remittances to you, Neibrkart will have the right to deduct and deposit any such applicable taxes with the appropriate regulatory authority. No claim in respect of the taxes deposited would be made by you against Neibrkart.
It is your responsibility as a seller on the Neibrkart Site to choose the most applicable product tax codes and assign Harmonized System of Nomenclature / Service accounting Code applicable for your listing, such that the correct tax rate is applied on all listings offered for sale by you. If we determine that you are not in compliance with this section, then we may suspend the services provided to you on the Neibrkart Site.
For reporting transactions undertaken by you on the Neibrkart Site, please write to us on any of the designated email IDs.
In case of any discrepancy in the reporting / returns filed by you and Neibrkart, you agree that you will resolve such discrepancy immediately and indemnify Neibrkart against any tax, interest and penalty payable in this regard.
11. Confidentiality
During the course of your use of the Services, you may receive information relating to us or our Affiliates or to the Services that is not known to the general public (“Confidential Information“). You agree that: (a) all Confidential Information will remain Neibrkart’s exclusive property; (b) you will use Confidential Information only as is reasonably necessary for your participation in the Services and ensure that persons who have access to Confidential Information will be made aware of and will comply with the obligations in this provision; and (c) you will not otherwise disclose Confidential Information to any individual, company, or other third party, including any Affiliates. You may not issue any press release or make any public statement related to the Services, or use our name, trademarks or logo in any way (including in promotional material) without our advance written permission, or misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us in any way.
12. Force Majeure
We will not be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of our obligations under this Agreement by reasons, events or other matters beyond our reasonable control.
13. Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will be construed to create a partnership, joint venture, association of persons, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. Neibrkart is not an auctioneer, neither is it an intermediary between the customer and the seller. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that would contradict anything in this section. This Agreement will not create an exclusive relationship between you and us.
14. Use of Neibrkart Transaction Information.
You will not, and will cause your Affiliates not to, directly or indirectly: (a) disclose or convey any Neibrkart Transaction Information (except you may disclose this information as necessary for you to perform your obligations under this Agreement and provided that you ensure that every recipient uses the information only for that purpose and complies with the restrictions applicable to you related to that information); (b) use any Neibrkart Transaction Information for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever (except as permitted below), or otherwise in any way inconsistent with our or your privacy policies or applicable Law; (c) contact a Person that has ordered Your Product that has not yet been delivered with the intent to collect any amounts in connection therewith, to influence such Person to make an alternative purchase, or to harass such Person; (d) disparage us, our Affiliates, or any of their or our respective products or services or any customer; or (e) target communications of any kind on the basis of the intended recipient being an Neibrkart Site user. The terms of this Section 14 do not prevent you from using other information that you acquire without reference to Neibrkart Transaction Information for any purpose, even if such information is identical to Neibrkart Transaction Information, provided that you do not target communications on the basis of the intended recipient being a Neibrkart Site user.
16. Modification
We may amend any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement (including the Service Terms and Programme Policies) at any time and solely at our discretion. Any changes will be effective upon the posting of such changes via email to your registered email ID, and you are responsible for reviewing these locations and informing yourself of all applicable changes or notices. You should refer regularly to your registered email ID for emails from us that notifies on all critical changes and policies, respectively, to understand the current Agreement and Policies and to be sure that the items you offer for sale can be sold via the Service in connection with the Neibrkart Site. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF A SERVICE AFTER NEIBRKART’S POSTING OF ANY CHANGES WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS.
17. Password Security
Any Neibrkart account related passwords are created by at time of registering an account and you are solely responsible for maintaining the security of your password. You may not disclose your password to any third party (other than third parties authorized by you to use Your Account in accordance with this Agreement) and are solely responsible for any use of or action taken under your password. If your password is compromised, you must immediately change your password. We ensure to take all necessary actions to keep all sensitive data on the website and website related databases, at any instance out of our control if the website is hacked or at any instance if the website security is breached we shall take necessary actions to rectify and resolve the same however by such instances if there’s any irreversible damage caused Neibrkart shall not take responsibility for the same.
18. Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of India. Each party hereby irrevocably consents to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts at Bangalore regarding any dispute with Neibrkart relating in any way to this Agreement or your use of the Services. You may not transfer or assign all or any portion of this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. We may perform any of our obligations or exercise any of our rights under this Agreement through one or more of our Affiliates. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement subsequently.
Neibrkart retains the right to immediately halt any transaction, prevent or restrict access to the Services or take any other action to restrict access to or availability of any inaccurate listing, any inappropriately categorized items, any unlawful items, or any items otherwise prohibited by the applicable Policies.
The authentic language of this Agreement and subsidiary or associated documentation shall be English. You agree we may communicate with you in English during the Term of this Agreement.
You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, disclose or make available any information provided or submitted by you or related to your participation under this Agreement (including information regarding Your Products or Your Transactions) to any judicial, quasi-judicial, governmental, regulatory or any other authority as may be required by us to co-operate and / or comply with any of their orders, instructions or directions or to fulfill any requirements under applicable Laws.
We will send you all notices, updates and other communications (including transactional, promotional and/or commercial communication) at the e-mail addresses designated by you, or Through Your Neibrkart Account, or on the mobile number provided by you or any other means then specified by Neibrkart. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive such communications through any mode including SMS, e-mail, phone calls etc. If at any time, now or in the future, you decide to change your preferences, please write to us on our designated email IDs.
You may change your e-mail addresses or phone numbers via Your Account. Please update these details (including your legal name and address) as often as necessary to ensure that they are accurate.
You must send all notices and other communication relating to Neibrkart to us by using the applicable Contact Us form or email IDs provided. Please continue to use Neibrkart as the primary means of managing your orders and seller account.
This Agreement incorporates and you hereby accept the applicable Service Terms and the applicable Policies, which Neibrkart may modify from time to time. In the event of any conflicts between the Policies and this Agreement, the Policies will prevail. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Services and related subject matter described herein and supersedes any previous or contemporaneous oral or written agreements and understandings.
Definitions
As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:
“Affiliate” means with respect to any entity, any other entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such entity, except with respect to Neibrkart, “Affiliate” means solely its Affiliates domiciled in India.
“Neibrkart” means the owner/operator of the Neibrkart website, www.neibrkart.com
“”Business Days” means any day of the week (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) on which commercial banks are open for business in New Delhi, India; Seattle, Washington, United States of America; Luxembourg; and the Republic of Singapore.
“Content” means copyrightable works and other content protected under applicable Laws.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means any patent, copyright, Trademark, moral right, trade secret right or any other intellectual property right arising under any Laws and all ancillary and related rights, including all rights of registration and renewal and causes of action for violation, misappropriation or infringement of any of the foregoing.
Selling on Neibrkart Terms
S-1. Your Product Listings and Orders
S-1.1 Products and Product Information. You will, in accordance with applicable Policies, provide in the format we require accurate and complete Required Product Information for each product that you make available to be listed for sale through the Neibrkart Site and promptly update such information as necessary to ensure it at all times remains accurate and complete. You will also ensure that Your Materials, Your Products (including packaging) and your offer and subsequent sale of any of the same on the Neibrkart Site comply with all applicable Laws (including all marking and labeling requirements) and do not contain any sexually explicit, defamatory or obscene materials or any unlawful materials. You may not provide any information for, or otherwise seek to list for sale on the Neibrkart Site, any Excluded Products; or provide any URL Marks for use, or request that any URL Marks be used, on the Neibrkart Site. For each item you list on the Neibrkart Site
S-1.2 Product Listing; Merchandising; Order Processing. We will list Your Products for sale on the Neibrkart Site in the applicable product categories which are supported for third party sellers generally on the Neibrkart Site on the applicable Selling on Neibrkart Launch Date, and conduct merchandising and promote Your Products as determined by us (including via the Neibrkart Associated Properties or any other functions, features, advertising, or programs on or in connection with the Neibrkart Site). Neibrkart reserves its right to restrict at any time in its sole discretion the access to list in any or all categories on the Neibrkart Site. We may use mechanisms that rate, or allow shoppers to rate, Your Products and/or your performance as a seller on the Neibrkart Site and Neibrkart may make these ratings and feedback publicly available. We will provide Order Information to you for each of Your Transactions. Sales Proceeds will be paid to you only in accordance with Section S-6.
S-1.3 Shipping and Handling Charges. For Seller-Fulfilled Products, you will determine shipping and handling charges via and subject to our standard functionality and categorizations for the Neibrkart Site and further subject to any shipping and handling charge Policies for the Neibrkart Site. Any such amounts, paid by the customer towards shipping and handling charges, shall be your proceeds, subject to deduction of applicable charges as may be determined by us and you are solely responsible for reporting and remitting any applicable taxes on the shipping and handling charges. For Neibrkart-Fulfilled Products (if such feature launches and is made available for sellers), Neibrkart will determine what the shipping fees will be and will display and collect them accordingly.
S-2. Sale and Fulfilment, Refunds and Returns
S-2.1 Sale and Fulfilment. Other than as described in the Fulfilment by Neibrkart Service Terms (if applicable and available to you), for the Neibrkart Site for which you register or use the Selling on Neibrkart Service, you will: (a) source, sell, fulfill, ship and deliver your Seller-Fulfilled Products, and source and sell your Neibrkart-Fulfilled Products, in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable Order Information, these Service Terms and the Agreement, and all terms provided by you and displayed on the Neibrkart Site at the time of the order and be solely responsible for and bear all risk for such activities; (b) package each of Your Products in a commercially reasonable manner and ship each of Your Products on or before its Estimated Ship Date; (c) retrieve Order Information at least once each Business Day; (d) not cancel any of Your Transactions except as may be permitted pursuant to your terms and conditions appearing on the Neibrkart Site at the time of the applicable order (which terms and conditions will be in accordance with this Agreement) or as may be required under this Agreement; (e) ship Your Products throughout India (except to the extent prohibited by applicable Law or this Agreement); (f) provide to Neibrkart information regarding shipment and order status and tracking (to the extent available), in each case as requested by us using the processes designated by us, and we may make any of this information publicly available; (g) comply with all Street Date instructions; (h) notwithstanding any other provision of these Service Terms, ensure that you are the seller of all products made available for listing for sale hereunder; (i) include an order-specific packing slip within each shipment of Your Products; (j) identify yourself as the seller of the product on all packing slips or other information included with Your Products and as the Person to which a customer may return the applicable product; and (k) not send customers emails confirming orders or shipments of Your Products (except that to the extent we have not yet enabled functionality for Your Account that allows payment to be processed on the basis of when shipment occurs, then you will send customers emails confirming shipment of Your Products in a format and manner reasonably acceptable to us). For Neibrkart-Fulfilled Products, if any, the Fulfilment by Neibrkart Service Terms will apply to the storage, fulfilment and delivery of such Neibrkart-Fulfilled Products.
S-2.2 Returns and Refunds. For all of Your Products that are either fulfilled by your directly or through Neibrkart, you will accept and process returns, refunds and adjustments in accordance with with then prevailing return and refund policies furnished by Neibrkart and we may inform customers that these policies apply to Your Products. You will determine and calculate the amount of all refunds and adjustments (including any taxes, shipping and handling or other charges) or other amounts to be paid by you to customers in connection with Your Transactions, We reserve right to refund the buyer from your amount that’s with us when we determine it is appropriate for the buyer to get the refund and you fail to resolve the same. You will route all such payments through Neibrkart. We will provide any such payments to the customer (which may be in the same payment form originally used to purchase Your Product), and you will reimburse us for all amounts so paid. For all of Your Products that are fulfilled using Fulfilment by Neibrkart, the Neibrkart Refund Policies published at the time of the applicable order will apply and you will comply with them. You will promptly provide refunds and adjustments that you are obligated to provide under the applicable Neibrkart Refund Policies and as required by Law, and in no case later than thirty (30) calendar days following after the obligation arises. For the purposes of making payments to the customer (which may be in the same payment form originally used to purchase Your Product), you authorize us to make such payments or disbursements from your available balance in the Nodal Account (as defined in Section S-6). In the event your balance in the Nodal Account is insufficient to process the refund request, we will process such amounts due to the customer on your behalf, and you will reimburse us for all amounts so paid.
S-3. Problems with Your Products
S-3.1 Delivery Errors and Nonconformities; Recalls. You are responsible for: any non-delivery, misdelivery, theft or other mistake or act in connection with the fulfilment and delivery of Your Products, except to the extent caused by: (a) wrong information furnished by the buyer or (b) our failure to make available to you Order Information as it was received by us or resulting from address verification . For Neibrkart-Fulfilled Products, if any, the Fulfilment by Neibrkart Service Terms will apply to non-delivery, misdelivery, theft or other mistake or act in connection with the fulfilment and delivery of those of Your Products. You are also responsible for any non-conformity or defect in, or any public or private recall of, any of Your Products. You will notify us promptly as soon as you have knowledge of any public or private recalls of Your Products.
S-3.2 General Escalations Made to Neibrkart by Buyer: In cases where a buyer isn’t satisfied with your resolution, product or service and chooses to escalate the matter to Neibrkart by contacting us via the website, email or call or any form regarding cases like Non delivery of a shipment/product, product not matching your listing, damaged product, defective or counterfeit product we may ask you to furnish (a) proof of delivery of Your Product(s) (as applicable); (b) any possible proof that can prove you’ve shipped a right product in ‘New’ and intact condition. Failing to prove your defense in the transaction dispute we reserve the right to deduct the disputed amount from your balance with us to refund the buyer for partial or full amount of the transaction, in case if you do not have sufficient balance with us we shall refund the buyer and may invoice you for the same which you agree to pay to us or we may choose to deduct the same form your future proceeds for which you grant your consent
S-4. Parity with Your Sales Channels
Subject to this Section S-4, you are free to determine which of Your Products you wish to list for sale on the Neibrkart Site. You will maintain parity between the products you offer through Your Sales Channels and the products you list on the Neibrkart Site by ensuring that at the applicable Selling on Neibrkart Launch Date and thereafter: (a) the Purchase Price and every other term of offer and/or sale of Your Product (including associated shipping and handling charges, Shipment Information, any “low price” guarantee, rebate or discount, any free or discounted products or other benefit available as a result of purchasing one or more other products, and terms of applicable return and refund policies) is at least as favourable to users of the Neibrkart Site as the most favourable terms upon which a product is offered and/or sold via Your Sales Channels (excluding consideration of Excluded Offers); (b) customer service for Your Products listed on the Neibrkart Site is at least as responsive and available and offers at least the same level of support as the most favourable customer services offered in connection with any of Your Sales Channels (provided that any such customer service will at all times be conducted in a timely, professional and courteous manner) (this requirement does not apply to customer service for payment-related issues on Your Transactions, which we will provide); and (c) the Content, Required Product Information and other information under Section S-1.1 regarding Your Products listed on the Neibrkart Site that you provide to us is of at least the same level of quality as the highest quality information displayed or used in Your Sales Channels. If you become aware of any non-compliance with (a) above, you will promptly compensate adversely affected customers by making appropriate refunds to them in accordance with Section S-2.2. For Neibrkart-Fulfilled Products, we acknowledge that if the shipping and handling charges associated with the sale and delivery of any of Your Products listed for sale on the Neibrkart Site are included in (and not separately stated) the purchase price listed for Your Products on the Neibrkart Site (collectively a “Shipping Inclusive Purchase Price“), then the parity obligation in (a) above will be satisfied if the Shipping Inclusive Purchase Price and each other term of offer and/or sale for the product on the Neibrkart Site are at least as favourable to users of the Neibrkart Site as the purchase price and each other term of offer and/or sale for the product (including any and all separately stated shipping and handling charges) pursuant to which the product is offered and/or sold via any of Your Sales Channels other than the Neibrkart Site.
S-5. Compensation
You will pay us: (a) the applicable Selling Fee; (b) any applicable Fees; and during the Term of this Agreement. The selling fee and related updates shall be communicated to you time-to-time manner, you are obliged to be aware of prevailing fee structure at any given point and may raise any related queries to us on the designated email IDs. Selling fee may differ seller to seller and at our sole discretion we may offer selling fee free service to any seller for any period of time for which you shall not have any obligations. Except as provided otherwise, all monetary amounts contemplated in these Service Terms will be expressed and provided in the Local Currency, and all payments contemplated by this Agreement will be made in the Local Currency.
All taxes or surcharges imposed on fees payable by you to Neibrkart will be your responsibility.
S-6 Sales Proceeds & Refunds.
S-6.1.Nodal Account. Remittances to you for Your Transactions will be made through a nodal account (the “Nodal Account“) in accordance with the directions issued by Reserve Bank of India for the opening and operation of accounts and settlement of payments for electronic payment transactions involving intermediaries vide its notification RBI/2009-10/231 DPSS.CO.PD.No.1102 / 02.14.08/ 2009-10 dated November 24, 2009. You authorize and permit us to collect and disclose any information (which may include personal or sensitive information such as Your Bank Account information) made available to us in connection with this Agreement to a bank, auditor, processing agency, or third party contracted by us in connection with this Agreement.
Subject to and without limiting any of the rights described in Section 2 of the General Terms, we may hold back a portion or your Sale Proceeds as a separate reserve (“Reserve“). The Reserve will be in an amount as determined by us and the Reserve will be used only for the purpose of settling the future claims of customers in the event of non-fulfillment of delivery to the customers of your Products keeping in mind the period for refunds and escalations.
S-6.2. Except as otherwise stated in this Agreement (including without limitation Section 2 of the General Terms), you authorize us and we will remit the Settlement Amount to Your Bank Account on the Payment Date in respect of an Eligible Transaction. When you either initially provide or later change Your Bank Account information, the Payment Date will be deferred for a period of up to 14 calendar days. You will not have the ability to initiate or cause payments to be made to you. If you refund money to a customer in connection with one of Your Transactions in accordance with Section S-2.2, on the next available Designated Day for Neibrkart Site, we will credit you with the amount of the Referral Fee paid by you to us attributable to the amount of the customer refund, less the Refund Administration Fee for each refund, which amount we may retain as an administrative fee.
S-6.3. In the event that we elect not to recover from you a customer’s chargeback, failed payment, or other payment reversal (a “Payment Failure“), you irrevocably assign to us all your rights, title and interest in and associated with that Payment Failure.
S-7. Control of Site
Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, we will have the right in our sole discretion to determine the content, appearance, design, functionality and all other aspects of the Neibrkart Site and the Selling on Neibrkart Service (including the right to re-design, modify, remove and alter the content, appearance, design, functionality, and other aspects of, and prevent or restrict access to any of the Neibrkart Site and the Selling on Neibrkart Service and any element, aspect, portion or feature thereof (including any listings), from time to time) and to delay or suspend listing of, or to refuse to list, or to de-list, or require you not to list any or all products on the Neibrkart Site in our sole discretion.
S-8. Effect of Termination
Upon termination of these Selling on Neibrkart Service Terms in connection with the Neibrkart Site, all rights and obligations of the parties under these Service Terms with regard to the Neibrkart Site will be extinguished, except that the rights and obligations of the parties with respect to Your Transactions occurring during the Term will survive the termination or expiration of the Term.
S-9. Tax Matters
In addition to the General Terms, you agree that, unless otherwise agreed by Neibrkart in advance in writing, the price stated by you for Your Products is inclusive of all taxes including VAT/CST/GST, customs duty, excise duty or other tax or levy that you may be required to remit in connection with such sale.
All payments by Neibrkart to you shall be made subject to any applicable withholding taxes and tax collection at source under all applicable Laws. Neibrkart will retain, in addition to its net fees together with any applicable taxes Neibrkart determines it is obligated to charge or collect on the fees, an amount equal to the legally applicable withholding taxes at the applicable rate. You are responsible for deducting and depositing the legally applicable taxes and delivering to Neibrkart sufficient documents evidencing the deposit of such tax. Upon receipt of the evidence of deduction of such tax, Neibrkart will remit the amount evidenced in the certificate to you. Upon your failure to duly deposit these taxes and provide evidence to that effect within five (5) Business Days from the end of the relevant month, Neibrkart shall have the right to utilize the retained amount for discharging its tax liability.
Where you have deposited the taxes, you will issue an appropriate tax withholding certificate for such amount to Neibrkart and Neibrkart shall provide the necessary support and documentation as may be required by you for discharging your obligations.
F.1. Your Products
You shall only list products that you are legally allowed to, for every product you list on Neibrkart you shall ensure you have stock available to fulfill upon receipt of an order for the same, you shall take complete responsibility for every attributes of the listing like but not limited to title, images, bullet points, description, pricing. You shall be solely responsible to face all legal consequences arising as a result of any unlawful product/content you list on Neibrkart, such incidents could be but not limited to imitating or using copyrighted content of other party in your product or listings, infringement related issues, listing sexually explicit content. Neibrkart is a platform that allows you to sell your products on its website but we do not take responsibility of products and attributes you list or sell on our website however this does not keep us from conducting frequent audits of products sold and listed on our website and we at any given time can suspend or terminate any selling account or product with or without notice if the product or selling account is found violating any of the policies in this agreement, if could attract copyright and other infringement claims, hurts sentiments of any group or individual or any such content that we at our sole discretion find is not suitable for our website. You shall list and sell products only that are allowed under prevailing product categories of our website
F.8. Reporting
You are responsible for raising or collecting from customers any appropriate documentation including invoices, delivery challans, way bills, stock transfer forms (e.g., Form F) or any other statutorily required documentation for reporting of both dispatch and arrivals of the shipment of Units to and from Customer or any party including Neibrkart if the need arises and if it is required. You will be solely responsible for clearing any goods held up at any checkposts or seized by tax authorities as a result of non-compliance of any required documentation requirements.
F.9. Customer Service
F.9.1. We will be responsible for and have sole discretion regarding all customer service issues relating to packaging, handling and shipment and customer returns, refunds and adjustments related to Neibrkart Orders and transactions, We will have the right to determine on your behalf, whether a customer will receive a refund, adjustment or replacement for any Neibrkart Order and to require you to reimburse us where we determine you have responsibility in accordance with this Agreement (including these Service Terms and the Policies for the applicable Neibrkart Site).
F.10. Compensation
F.10.1. Fees. You will pay us all the applicable fees and commission as agreed by you at the beginning of this agreement and you shall continue to pay us fees and other charges including taxes at prevailing rates and structure, all changes and updates regarding such fee and charges shall be communicated to you at timely manner via the email ID you have provided us while registering the selling account. We may choose to invoice you for such charges and ask you to pay us or we may choose to deduct the same from your proceeds and/or from your deposits held with us.
F.11. Indemnity
In addition to your obligations under Section 6 of this Agreement, you also agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, our Affiliates and their and our respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents (if any associated with us now, in the past or in the future) against any Claim that arises out of or relates to: (a) the Units (whether or not title has transferred to us, and including any Unit that we identify as yours pursuant to Section F-4 regardless of whether such Unit is the actual item you originally sent to us), including any personal injury, death or property damage; and b) any of Your Taxes or the collection, payment or failure to collect or pay Your Taxes or for any demand/denial of credit arising on account discrepancies observed in the goods and services tax returns filed.
F.12. Release
You hereby, on behalf of yourself and your successors, subsidiaries, Affiliates, officers, directors, shareholders, employees, assigns and any other person or entity claiming by, through, under or in concert with you or them (collectively, the “Releasing Parties“), irrevocably acknowledge full and complete satisfaction of and hereby unconditionally and irrevocably release and forever fully discharge Neibrkart and each of its Affiliates, and any and all of their predecessors, successors, and Affiliates, past and present, as well as each of their partners, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, employees, representatives, attorneys, and assigns, past and present, and each of them and all Persons acting by, through, under or in concert with any of them (collectively, the “Released Parties“), from any and all claims, obligations, demands, causes of action, suits, damages, losses, debts or rights of any kind or nature, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, determined or speculative (collectively, “Losses“) which the Releasing Parties now own or hold or at any time heretofore have owned or held or in the future may hold or own against the Released Parties, or any of them, arising out of, resulting from, or in any way related to, the shipment including any tax registration or collection obligations. You, on behalf of yourself and all other Releasing Parties, recognize that you, and each of them, may have some Losses (WHETHER IN CONTRACT; WARRANTY; TORT; DELICT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE; PRODUCT LIABILITY; ANY TYPE OF CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY OR OTHER THEORY) OR OTHERWISE) against the Released Parties of which you, or any of them, are totally unaware and unsuspecting. It is your intention in agreeing to these Terms that these Terms will deprive the Releasing Parties of each and all such Losses and prevent the Releasing Party from asserting any such Losses against the Released Parties, or any of them.