Terms and conditions
Terms and Conditions
1. ProtectBox is a Marketplace
2. Membership/Registration Eligibility
Age: ProtectBox’s Buyer and Supplier services are available only to, and may only be used by, individuals who are 18 years and older who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old and that all registration information you submit is accurate and truthful. ProtectBox may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer access to or use of the Site to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time. This provision is void where prohibited by law and the right to access the Site is revoked in such jurisdictions.
Individuals under the age of 18 must at all times use ProtectBox’s services only in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who is at least 18 years of age. In all cases, the adult is the Buyer or Supplier and is responsible for any and all activities.
Compliance: You agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content. You are responsible for all applicable taxes. In addition, you must abide by ProtectBox’s policies as stated in the Agreement and the ProtectBox policy documents listed below (if applicable to your activities on or use of the Site) as well as all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time on the Site by ProtectBox, each of which is incorporated herein by reference and each of which may be updated by ProtectBox from time to time without notice to you:
• Supplier Policy
• Privacy Policy
In addition, some services offered through the Site may be subject to additional terms and conditions promulgated by ProtectBox from time to time; your use of such services is subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
As a legal person, you promise and guarantee that during the period of registration and agreement: (a) you are legally established in accordance with local law, validly existing and in good operation; (b) you have all the necessary legal qualifications, rights, capabilities and authorities to sign this agreement, fulfill duties accordingly and grant rights, licensing and authority required by this agreement, and have the permissions, approvals and licenses required by your business; and (c) you and your affiliates will comply with all applied laws to fulfill your rights and duties in this agreement.
Password: Keep your password secure. You are fully responsible for all activities, liabilities and damages resulting from your failure to maintain password confidentiality. You agree to immediately notify ProtectBox of any unauthorised use of your password or any breach of security. You also agree that ProtectBox cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to keep your password secure. You agree not to provide your username and password information in combination to any other party other than ProtectBox without ProtectBox’s express written permission.
Account Information: You must keep your account information up-to-date and accurate at all times, including a valid email address. To buy or sell items on ProtectBox you must provide and maintain valid payment information namely a valid Stripe (www.stripe.com) account. If you do not comply with the aforementioned provisions, you assume all responsibility for losses.
Account Transfer: You may not transfer or sell your ProtectBox Buyer or Supplier account and username to another party. When registering as a business entity, you should prove that you have the right to assign the agreement, and the validity should be vested in the entity.
Right to Refuse Service: ProtectBox’s services are not available to temporarily or indefinitely suspended ProtectBox members. ProtectBox reserves the right, in ProtectBox’s sole discretion, to cancel unconfirmed or inactive accounts. ProtectBox reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, at any time.
3. Fees and Billing
4. Listing and Selling
5. Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing Items and Activities
You are solely responsible for your conduct and activities on and relating to ProtectBox and any and all data, text, information, usernames, graphics, images, photographs, profiles, audio, video, items, and links (together, “Content”) that you submit, post, and display on ProtectBox. If ProtectBox makes any requirements at any time, Supplier shall provide the written proof of having obeyed the product requirement of ProtectBox and related law as soon as possible. The Supplier assumes all responsibility for losses arising from delay.
Restricted Activities: Your Content and your use of ProtectBox shall not: a) Be false, inaccurate or misleading; b) Be obscene or contain pornography, nudity, or adult material; c) Contain or transmit any code of a destructive nature that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; d) Host images that are not part of a product listing; e) Link directly or indirectly to, reference or contain descriptions of goods or services that are prohibited under this Agreement ( Terms And Conditions ), ProtectBox’s Supplier Policy ( Supplier Policy ) , or other policy documents as posted on ProtectBox; f) Contain items that have been identified by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) as hazardous to consumers and therefore subject to a recall; g) List any item on ProtectBox (or consummate any transaction) that could cause ProtectBox to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates this agreement; h) Be fraudulent (Fraud is the action taken by Supplier to deliberately inform customers of false information or conceal the real situation to lure customers into making purchasing.) or involve the sale of illegal (Illegal goods refer to the commodity material, goods (including packaging) which contains illegal content.), counterfeit (Imitation is the product’s trademark being forged or imitated or the product being adulterated without the permission of the owner of registered trademark.) or stolen items (Stolen products refer to illegally possessing, secretly stealing or burgling public or private products); i) Be defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening, unlawfully harassing, impersonate or intimidate any person (including, without limitation, ProtectBox staff or other Suppliers), or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person, through for example, the use of similar email address, nicknames, or creation of false account(s) or any other method or device; j) Violate (or involve the sale of products that violate) upon any third-party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary or intellectual property rights or rights of publicity or privacy (see also, ProtectBox’s Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy); Such prohibited behavior includes (without limitation): 1) selling or displaying items portraying the likeness of a celebrity (including portraits, pictures, names, signatures and autographs); 2) selling or displaying items bearing a third party brand or trademark that you are not authorized to display in such manner or 3) selling any pirated video or recording; k) Modify, adapt or hack ProtectBox or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with ProtectBox; l) Solicit business for, direct sales to, or promote any website, service, or entity outside ProtectBox; m) Violate this Agreement ( Supplier Policy ), ProtectBox’s Supplier Policy ( Supplier Policy ), any ProtectBox site policy or community guidelines, or any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing anti-money laundering, fraud, corruption, export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising).
Furthermore, you may not list any item on ProtectBox (or consummate any transaction that was initiated using ProtectBox’s service) that could cause ProtectBox to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates the terms and conditions. ProtectBox has the right to freeze the account temporarily or permanently. ProtectBox reserves the right to refund the loss with your frozen capital.
If ProtectBox has reasonable doubts to believe the Supplier consummates any transaction that was initiated using ProtectBox’s service) that could cause ProtectBox to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates the right of Supplier’s account and pay customers or others according to specific compensation standard. All the payments ProtectBox made include (but without limitation) refund, compensation and other fees. Suppliers should agree to our decision on user refunds, if they believe they are unduly affected, they should follow ProtectBox’s standard Supplier dispute route. ProtectBox will notice you the result and reserve the right of final explanation. ProtectBox may decide to implement a policy that allows ProtectBox to withhold payment or other due payments according to this agreement. If ProtectBox has reasonable doubts to believe any actions or behaviors of the Supplier may cause disputes, fees or other claims with customers or Buyers, ProtectBox has rights to delay payment to the Supplier and withhold account payable or other due payments according to this agreement, until all investigations of those actions and behaviors have completed. If the Supplier conducts above restricted activities or violates this provision, the Supplier should pay GBP £500 as penalty per incidence.
You agree that ProtectBox has no obligations to keep information, update information, or send you the latest information in the case of suspending or ceasing your account.
Without limiting ProtectBox’s remedies for any violation of any provision above (or any other provision in any other agreement between you and ProtectBox), if ProtectBox (in its sole discretion) determines that you violate any of the above provisions, ProtectBox may, temporarily or permanently, freeze your account (including, without limitation, all capital therein and any payment to you therefrom).
6. Content
License: ProtectBox does not claim ownership rights in your Content. You grant ProtectBox a license solely to enable ProtectBox to use any information or Content you supply ProtectBox with, so that ProtectBox is not violating any rights you might have in that Content. You grant ProtectBox a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensing (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the Content, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to your Content. You agree to allow ProtectBox to store or re-format your Content on ProtectBox and display your Content on ProtectBox in any way as ProtectBox chooses. ProtectBox will not alter the form of your trademark (related ratios remain the same). ProtectBox will only use personal information in accordance with ProtectBox’s Privacy Policy.
As part of a transaction, you may obtain personal information from a ProtectBox user or Buyer. Without obtaining prior permission from the user or Buyer, this personal information shall only be used for that transaction or for ProtectBox-related communications. ProtectBox has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, expressing consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any ProtectBox user to your email or physical mail list. For more information, see ProtectBox’s Privacy Policy. ProtectBox does not assume any responsibilities for disputes between you and your customers or Buyers for using customer or Buyer information without authorisation.
Re-Posting Content: By posting Content on ProtectBox, it is possible for an outside website or a third party to re-post that Content. You agree to hold ProtectBox harmless from any dispute concerning this use.
7. Resolution of Disputes and Release
8. ProtectBox's Intellectual Property
9. Access and Interference
10. Breach
Without limiting any other remedies, ProtectBox may unilaterally decide, without notice, and without refunding any fees, delay or immediately remove Content, warn ProtectBox’s community of a Supplier’s actions, issue a warning to a Supplier, temporarily suspend a Supplier, temporarily or indefinitely suspend a Supplier’s account privileges, terminate a Supplier’s account, prohibit access to the Site, and take technical and legal steps to keep a Supplier off the Site and refuse to provide services to a Supplier if any of the following applies:
investigation, or otherwise a Supplier has breached this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, the Supplier Policy, or other policy documents and community guidelines incorporated herein; ProtectBox is unable to verify or authenticate any of your personal information or Content; or ProtectBox believes that a Supplier is acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of ProtectBox’s policies, has engaged in improper or fraudulent activity in connection with ProtectBox or the actions may cause legal liability or financial loss to ProtectBox’s Suppliers or to ProtectBox.
11. Privacy
Except as being provided in ProtectBox’s Privacy Policy, ProtectBox will not sell or disclose your personal information (as defined in the Privacy Policy to third parties without your explicit consent. ProtectBox stores and processes Content on computers located in the United Kingdom and the United States protected by physical as well as technological security.