LACARTES BUSINESSES TERMS & CONDITIONS
These terms and conditions govern your use of Lacartes Businesses either as a business or a customer. Please read the terms in full before you use this Website. If you do not accept these terms, please do not use this Website. Using the Website implies that you accept these terms.
Lacartes Businesses is an online platform for businesses to promote their brand, products and services online. Lacartes Businesses provides an online guide for consumers to discover and connect with vendors and service providers. Lacartes is not directly involved in the transactions between buyers and sellers. As a result, Lacartes has no control over the quality, safety, morality or legality of any aspect of the items listed, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of sellers to sell a product or service or the ability of buyers to pay for products and services. Lacartes does not pre-screen content or information provided by users. Lacartes cannot ensure that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction. Lacartes cannot guarantee the true identity, age, and nationality of an user and encourages you to communicate directly with potential customers through the tools available on the Site.
You agree that Lacartes Businesses is a venue and as such is not responsible or liable for any content, for example, data, text, information, usernames, graphics, images, photographs, profiles, audio, video, items, and links posted by you, other users, or outside parties on Lacartes Businesses. You use the Lacartes Businesses service at your own risk.
Business Information: You must keep your business page up-to-date and accurate at all times, including a valid email address, business address, business category and up-to-date images and price lists.
Duplicate Pages: Lacartes business users may only hold and operate one business page per business at any one time (in the case of franchises or chains, one business page per local branch) and the account must only be operated by the named account holder or an authorised representative. We reserve the right to terminate any duplicate accounts or pages without prior warning.
Feedback: We take feedback integrity seriously. Businesses may offer small incentives for general feedback, however manipulation and/or bribery is not tolerated. This includes feedback from a related account, offering incentives/bribes in return for specific feedback. The Lacartes team reserve the right to remove any feedback which it suspects has been posted as a result of such manipulation or bribery and may close the seller account to which it relates.
BUSINESS PAGE
Business Information: By listing a business on Lacartes you warrant that you and all aspects of the business comply with Lacartes's published policies. You must accurately describe your business and use only up-to-date images and price lists. All businesses must be listed in an appropriate category with accurate location and contact information. You must not list the same business more than once. We reserve the right to remove any pages with false, inaccurate or misleading information or category without prior warning.
PROHIBITED, QUESTIONABLE AND INFRINGING BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
You are solely responsible for your conduct and activities on and regarding to Lacartes 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 Lacartes.
Restricted Activities: Your Content and your use of Lacartes:
- Must not be false, inaccurate or misleading
- Must not be fraudulent or involve the sale of illegal, counterfeit or stolen items
- Must not infringe upon any third-party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary or intellectual property rights or rights of publicity or privacy
- Must not breach this Agreement, any site policy or community guidelines, or any applicable law or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising)
- Must not be identified as hazardous to consumers
- Must not be defamatory, libellous, unlawfully threatening, unlawfully harassing, impersonate or intimidate any person (including Lacartes staff or other users), 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
- Must not be obscene
- Must not contain or transmit any code of a destructive nature that may damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information
- Must not modify, adapt or hack Lacartes or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Lacartes;
- Must not link directly or indirectly, reference or contain descriptions of goods or services that are prohibited under this Agreement or other policy documents as posted on Lacartes.
Furthermore, you must not list any business on Lacartes (or conclude any transaction that was initiated using Lacartes's service) that, by paying to Lacartes a fee, could cause Lacartes to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates the Terms of Use.
As part of a transaction, you may obtain personal information, including contact details, from another Lacartes user. Without obtaining prior permission from the other user, this personal information shall only be used for that transaction or for Lacartes-related communications. Lacartes has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any Lacartes user to your email or physical mail list.
PREMIUM SERVICES & FEES
Lacartes Businesses offers several premium subscription services business users can purchase to enhance their page and access exclusive features and services. Premium services' features and fees are subject to change. Increase to the fees for Lacartes Businesses' premium services are effective after Lacartes provides you with at least thirty (30) days' notice by posting the changes on the Site. However, Lacartes may choose to temporarily change the features and fees for its services for promotional events; such changes are effective when Lacartes posts the temporary promotional event on the Site. Lacartes may decrease the fees with no notice to you. Lacartes may, at its sole discretion, change some or all of Lacartes Businesses' services at any time. In the event Lacartes introduces a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the new service.
You are responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes associated with using Lacartes Businesses' services. Lacartes keeps accepted payment information in accordance with its Privacy Policy.
LEGAL COMPLIANCE AND TAXES
You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws and regulations regarding your use of the Site and any Lacartes service and, if applicable, your listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of products and services. In addition, you shall be responsible for paying any and all taxes applicable to any purchases or sales of products and services you make on the Site.
NO AGENCY
You and Lacartes are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.