Terms of Use
TERMS OF USE
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Use of Data
3. Website Usage
4. Our Services
5. Listings
6. Payments
7. Intellectual Property
8. Third Parties
9. Privacy
10. Liabilities
11. Contacts and Communications
12. Updating and Terminating Information
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1. Introduction
1.1 The below terms of use will highlight the conditions of use of this website, “vieews.com” [ also referred to as ‘website’, ‘site’ in this document] and its authorised affiliates. By using this website, you have agreed to these terms and conditions. These conditions may be updated and we will notify all users of updates accordingly.
1.2 Definitions and terms used on this website are as follows:
1.2.1 Users are classed as all visitors using vieews.com and viewing/using information whether registered or not.
1.2.2 Listings are postings made by Users of the website, these may be businesses, products, services, buy requests and contacts between users
1.2.3 Website is vieews.com and its affiliates
1.2.4 Services by vieews.com are offered to users of the website
1.2.5 Buyers are users who visit the website to find sellers/suppliers for the intent of making a purchase
1.2.6 Sellers/Suppliers are users who visit the website to find buyers for the intent of making a sale
2. Use of Data
2.1 We comply with Data Protection Act 1998
2.2 Our privacy policy highlights use of data collected on the website.
3. Website Usage
3.1 Users of vieews.com are hereby advised to use services of the site for the intent set forth in our ‘terms of use’, ‘prohibited listings, ‘how-to’, ‘privacy policy’ and ‘about’ pages. Any user found in breach of usage terms will have their account terminated or suspended as required.
3.2 With the exception of the social media share buttons on the website, Users may not copy, transmit, display or publish information from this website without express approval from us.
3.3 Users are not allowed to use the website or any linked database with use of data scraping or harvesting automated systems
3.4 Our website is accessible through internet or mobile devices and latest browsers however note that older devices and browsers may not show same quality of information. Users are strongly advised to use the latest browsers to get the best of the website features.
3.5 Cookies are used on this website and the relevant cookies statement is available within the privacy policy.
3.6 Users will be held responsible for damages caused to our website through users’ links or spam or other info posted through the website.
3.7 Users shall use the website for the intent which it was designed for. Any users found to be engaged in scams, spam information, payment frauds, lottery scams and any related activities will be banned from the website.
3.8 We are not responsible for any losses to users as a result of making payments or providing services to other users met through the website.
4. Our Services
4.1 Primary services offered via vieews.com are Basic Listing and Premium Listing for Sellers and Buyer Requests for Buyers. We reserve the right to add or remove services at any point. We will endeavour to fulfil the terms of all open agreements where possible.
4.2 Services offered can be found around the vieews.com navigation and site map as well as in your account section. If other services are required, please contact us for options to support your requirements.
4.3 We will endeavour to ensure the website is available at all times without interruptions. However, some features may require updates or redesign and we will not take any liabilities for any consequences for any website interruptions deemed relevant to the upkeep of the website.
4.4 The ‘About’ and ‘How it works’ pages provide overview of vieews.com. We cannot guarantee success of our services in serving your needs and we advise you to ensure precautions in place to avoid losses to you.
5. Listings
5.1 All business, products, services and requests listed on this website are listed by website users. Vieews.com does not guarantee or take responsibility for the accuracy of listings, losses or the quality of services/products provided by users of the website. All users are advised to verify information themselves are required for the transactional circumstances.
5.2 All sellers/businesses/products must be either made in Africa or available to Africa. This platform primarily aims to connect local and global Buyers with the business environment in Africa. Products not fitting this profile may be removed.
5.3 All users intending to list their businesses or products/services are advised to review the ‘Listing Policy’ (subject to regular updates), prior to listing any items on the website to avoid issues with listing being declined or user account being banned.
Listing Policy on vieews.com
We encourage use of vieews to showcase your products and business responsibly while ensuring the integrity of the website.
Alongside any local, national or international laws applicable to your country of origin, the following category listings are banned on this website:
- Replica and counterfeit products
- Listings from minors
- Tools and information promoting terrorism
- Sales of human beings or human organs
- Multi-level/pyramid marketing schemes
- Ammunition and firearms equipment listings are subject to provision of authorised/legal certificates required to deal in such goods
- Abusive or threatening products
- Illegal/plagiarised copies of labels, software, musical/audio, storage, brandings, books and other related violating copyrights.
- Prostitution or any other related sexual solicitation service in the nature
- Products or tools designed or intended to spam others
- Endangered animal or plant products
- Illegal drugs/narcotics
- Religious/Secular/Sensitive informational products that may cause offence to others
- Production of fake identity or other documentation
- Sale of financial products against relevant legal regulations
Users whose listings violate the above will be subject to penalties such as having access blocked to site, and if required, further legal actions may be pursued as relevant.
The above list will be updated frequently to keep in line with any new legal requirements and developments.
5.4 We review all listings periodically for suitability on the website to ensure listings meet with minimal guidelines with no potentially illegal or discriminatory information published on the website. However, if you find any inappropriate listings; please contact us with relevant information and links. We will endeavour to action any listings deemed unsuitable as soon as possible.
5.5 Users are advised to be familiar with online trading safety tips as well as undertaking individual extra precautions to avoid losses. We will not be responsible for any losses to users as a consequence of any transaction.
5.6 We reserve the right to use the information you have provided to meet your service requirements such as references in our marketing campaigns
6. Payments
6.1 Payments made to vieews.com are strictly for services offered by vieews.com such as premium/featured options. Vieews.com does not collect payments on behalf of Buyers and/or Sellers for other listings on the website
6.2 Users trading with other users on the website are hereby advised to take due diligence and precautions prior to transacting with other users.
6.3 We utilise third party payment providers such as PayPal or similar and will never require you to enter payment information on vieews.com. Please report anyone asking you to input your confidential payment information on this website.
6.4 Any pricing listed on the website can be revised at any time. Discounts of price breaks that are offered to individual customers only should not be disclosed to other users.
6.5 If you have paid for a premium feature, services will commence upon our acknowledgement of receipt of payment.
6.5.1 Listings last for minimum of 1 year once approved
7. Intellectual Property
7.1 All contents of this website pertaining to the trade secrets and intellectual property remain the property of vieews.com and its owners protected under worldwide copyright laws.
7.2 Users are not allowed to adapt or use any information owned by vieews.com and its affiliates.
7.3 We may use information provided by users to fulfil contractual or other obligations to you for services you require.
7.4 We cannot guarantee or verify intellectual property rights of users or information posted by users. We welcome any feedback on any copyright infringement and we will act accordingly to ensure ownership of intellectual properties are protected.
7.5 We will accept no responsibilities or be liable for losses/adverse outcomes to users using this website information for their purposes.
8. Third Parties
8.1 We may use third parties to support our service offerings and ensure that all parties comply to our usage and privacy policies.
9. Privacy
9.1 Use of information entered by users on this website is governed by our Privacy Policy. We will always endeavour handling of personal data with utmost privacy and care; however, we do have third party providers and affiliates who may also view this data but they will also be required to comply with our privacy policies
9.2 The data collected on the website is predominantly linked to business or product information. We will not require information such as date of birth, credit/payment information.
9.3 We will not send emails requesting personal information from you. All account information can be managed from the account section of your website. If you are in receipt of email from us requesting personal information, please flag such emails to us using our contact form.
10. Liabilities
10.1 We hope you will be satisfied with the services offered, however we do not guarantee you, as a Seller/Supplier, will find a Buyer and any increased business or profits, or Buyers will find Sellers/Suppliers. However, we do our best to advertise with quality mediums to acquire good user database at all times.
10.2 We do not personally verify businesses or products or services or buyer requests added on the website, we endeavour to review all listings to ensure they are in line with website’s listing policies.
10.3 Vieews.com will offer no guarantees to any loss arising from use of information found on the website or linked sites.
10.4 We cannot always guarantee the continuity of our operations at all times but will do our best to communicate any expected or unexpected system downtime.
11. Contacts and Communications
11.1 Contact between users may be made using the relevant ‘contact’ button on business, product, service or buyer request listings.
11.2 Users are advised to share relevant information pertaining to the business transaction and limit the use of Personal data considered to be inadequate, irrelevant or excessive in relation to the purpose of the transaction
11.3 Communications between users and to vieews.com representatives should be fair and professional at all times to preserve the reputation of our website and enhance user experience. Vieews.com is not responsible for any issues between users as a result of communication issues on the website. You can report users found to be abusive or similar to us for follow up actions.
11.4 Vieews.com may be contacted using contact forms listed on the website. We are only currently available through online contacts.
11.5 Vieews.com part of a limited company registered in the United Kingdom. Please contact us for more information where required.
12. Updating and Terminating Information
12.1 To close your account, please contact us and we will close your account as soon as possible.
12.2 Users are advised to ensure their listings are as accurate and up to date as possible. User account provides the option to delete information for listing of products, businesses and buy requests.
Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Contents
PRIVACY POLICY
INFORMATION AND ITS USE
COOKIES
THIRD PARTY USAGE
CHILDREN ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION
CONSENT
OTHER INFORMATION
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PRIVACY POLICY
(August 29th, 2016 – last updated)
This privacy policy is linked to Vieews.com website only [referred to as ‘this website’, ‘site’ in this document] and its authorised affiliates. Users of the website are required to be familiar with our privacy policy to understand how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information in accordance with our website services.
INFORMATION AND ITS USE
As part of the registration process, you may be asked to enter your personal details such as your name, email address, business name, business address, business email, business phone number, business sales information and other relevant details required to complete the membership process to support the services we will provide to you. Your listing is publicly available to users of this website.
We will never collect information that is not considered to be relevant to the type of services offered such as date of birth, bank information, sensitive payment information and other confidential data.
Information will generally be collected as part of the registration process, when a service is requested by you, use contact forms, when you subscribe to alerts, complete survey, or enter your information voluntarily on various parts of the site.
The information you enter may be used in the following ways:
• To personalise your site experience and/or allow us to deliver content and product offerings which may be of interest to you.
• To improve our website features to enhance users’ experience.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• To quickly process your service requests and transactions.
• To send periodic email notifications regarding your order or other relevant products/services.
• To enable contact between members of our website as stipulated within our terms of services.
We will do our best to protect the information of members and visitors to our site by use of use regular Malware Scanning or similar tools.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks/firewalls and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All payment transactions are processed through a gateway provider such as PayPal and your banking/payment information will not be requested or stored or processed on our servers.
Information such as telephone and email are hidden to prevent junk or spam messages not relevant to service requested. Only contact forms can be used to make contact by registered users.
COOKIES
Cookies are used on this website, and might include 3rd party vendor cookies.
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser, depending on your browser Cookies settings, that enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your login details or location already searched for. They are also used to help us understand your search and other preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
• Help remember and process the items you have viewed previously.
• Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
• Keep track of advertisements.
• Compile comprehensive data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services, such as google, that track this information on our behalf.
You are able to manage behaviour of cookies using your browser settings to e.g. warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you disable cookies off, some features may be disabled; however, it will not affect the overall user experience or ability to carry out interactions/transactions.
A cookie usage notification will appear on the site the first time you visit the site to notify you of our cookie usage on the site. We do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Users may adjust their Google cookies settings here: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
THIRD PARTY USAGE
We will not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice or you give permission for us to do so. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, as those parties agree to keep this information confidential as part of Vieews.com supply contract. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable generic visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products, advertisement links/banners or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. However, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites that may conflict with our site’s privacy policy.
CHILDREN ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION
We do not specifically market to children under 16.
CONSENT
By registering on this website, you are giving consent to the use of your personal or business information as set forth in the terms and conditions of the site.
OTHER INFORMATION
Users can visit our site anonymously
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’, and can be easily be found on the page specified above.
Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes:
• On our Privacy Policy Page
Users are able to change their personal information:
• By emailing us
• From their account profile/dashboard
We aim to guarantee the privacy of data on our site and should a data breach occur:
We will notify the users via email or other site posting within 7 business days
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can click on link in message or contact us and we will promptly remove your email from ALL correspondence.
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us.
