TERMS & CONDITIONS
Welcome to GoldZouq.com. These terms & conditions apply to the GoldZouq website located at www.goldzouq.com and all other sites, mobile sites, services, applications, platforms, and tools where these terms & conditions appear or are linked (collectively, the "Site"). As used in these terms & conditions, "GoldZouq", "us" or "we" refers to GoldZouq corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Please read the following carefully as it affects your legal rights.These terms & conditions contain an agreement to arbitrate that requires the use of arbitration on an individual basis to resolve disputes rather than jury or any other court proceedings, or class actions of any kind.By accessing or otherwise using the site you agree to these terms & conditions. Any person or entity who interacts with the site through the use of crawlers, robots, browsers, data mining or extraction tools, or other functionality, whether such functionality is installed or placed by such person or entity or a third party, is considered to be using the site. If at any time you do not accept all of these terms & conditions, you must immediately stop using the site. Certain areas within site may be governed by additional terms ("additional terms"). By using those areas of the site, you agree to the additional terms. The additional terms are incorporated into these terms & conditions, and any reference to these terms &conditions includes the additional terms.
Copyright notice:
To notify us of a suspected copyright infringement, write to us at hello@goldzouq.com Include the following (please consult your legal counsel or see Section 512(c)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to confirm these requirements).
● The physical or electronic signature of the owner or someone authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
● A description or identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
● A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to allow us to find it.
● Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
● A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
● A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
Repeated violations of others' copyrights may result in a loss of privileges. License to use the website GoldZouq grants you a limited license to make personal use only of the Site. Such grant does not include, without limitation: (a) any resale or commercial use of the Site or any Site Materials (defined below); (b) modification, adaptation, translation, reverse engineering, decompilation, disassembly or conversion into human readable form any of the Site materials not intended to be so read, including use of or directly viewing the underlying HTML or other code from the Site except as interpreted and displayed in a web browser; (c) copying, imitating, mirroring, reproducing, distributing, publishing, downloading, displaying, performing, posting or transmitting any Site Materials (including any GoldZouq trademarks) in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise; (d) the collection and use of any product listings or descriptions; (e) making derivative uses of the Site and any Site Materials; or (f) use of any data mining, bots, spiders, automated tools or similar data gathering and extraction methods, directly or indirectly, on the Site Materials or to collect any information from the Site or any other user of the Site. Except as noted above, you have not conveyed any right or license by implication, estoppel, or otherwise in or under a patent, trademark, copyright, or proprietary right of GoldZouq or any third party. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing GoldZouq's name, trademark, or product name without our express written consent. "Site Materials" means all materials on the Site, including, without limitation, trademarks (as specifically defined in these Site Terms), design, product description, HTML text, graphics, other files, photographs, codes, software layout, design forms and the selection and arrangement thereof. Our solution is a software as a service (SaaS) based, which is licensed to use on a subscription basis. SaaS is a web-based application that is hosted, supported and maintained by a service provider referred to as "on-demand software". We may terminate this license and your use of or access to the Site if you make or permit any unauthorized use of the Site. Such actions by you may violate applicable law including, without limitation, copyright laws, trademark laws (including trade dress), and communications regulations and statutes. We reserve the right to have all violators prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Acceptable use
User and user conduct: Users of this website can be any individual, individuals, business entities/organizations legally operating in India or any other country. The user needs to be above 18 years to be eligible to get into a legally binding contract.
Interaction between users: GoldZouq only provides an online-enabled platform for users to interact with themselves. We neither represent the buyer nor the seller. The website can’t control or is liable for the accuracy, quality, lawfulness, and availability of products. Users must acknowledge that users fully assume the risks of trusting any information offered by the other and performing transactions based on it. GoldZouq can’t be held responsible for any breach of contract. Except as stated in the Site Terms, none of the materials and intellectual property described in these Site Terms (including the Site Materials) may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of GoldZouq or the respective intellectual property owner. You may electronically copy and print to hard copy portions of the Site for the sole purpose of using materials it contains for informational and non-commercial, personal use only. Any other use of the materials in the Site (including any commercial use, reproduction for purposes other than described above, modification, distribution, republication, display, or performance), without the prior written permission of GoldZouq, is strictly prohibited.
Registration and accounts
Your Information:
If you register on the Site, you agree that any information you provide to us will be current, accurate and complete, and you will promptly update this information if it changes.
Additional Submissions:
You agree that any materials, including but not limited to questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, plans, notes, drawings, original or creative materials or other information, provided by you in the form of email or
submissions to GoldZouq, or postings on the Site ("Submissions") are non-confidential (subject to our Privacy Statement) and that you remain solely responsible and liable for your Submissions. You further hereby grant (or warrant that the owner of the Submissions has granted) to us and our assigns a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, unrestricted, non-exclusive, worldwide, assignable, sub-licensable, right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and otherwise exploit the Submissions or any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques associated with the Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, using any form, media or technology now known or later developed, without providing compensation to you or any other person, without any liability whatsoever, and free from any obligation of confidence or other duties on our part or of our assigns, and you hereby waive all moral rights, or agree, represent and warrant that all moral rights in the Submissions (including without limitation the rights of paternity, attribution and integrity) are irrevocably waived, in favor of us and our assigns. The foregoing license does not apply to the Photo Content defined.
Restrictions for Submissions:
By using the Site, you agree not to do any of the following:
● Upload to, distribute, create through or otherwise publish through the Site any Submission ("Content") that is unlawful, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, contains nudity, or is otherwise objectionable;
● Upload or transmit any Content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or another intellectual or proprietary right of any party. By posting any Content, you represent and warrant that you have the lawful right to distribute and reproduce such Content;
● Impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
● Upload to, distribute or otherwise publish through the Site any Content such as charity requests, petitions for signatures, chain letters or letters relating to pyramid schemes, advertising or solicitations for funds, political campaigning, mass mailings, any form of unsolicited commercial email or "spam" (regardless of whether the email itself complies with the requirements of federal or state law for sending commercial email), or offering or disseminating fraudulent goods, services, schemes or promotions;
● Upload any Content that contains any private or personal information of a third party without such third party’s consent; and
● Disseminate any harmful content of any kind, including without limitation, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, zombies, cancel bots or any other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, program, data or personal information.
Product Quote Price:
Prices are Market-linked and the quotes provided by Sellers are linked to the prices of gold in the commercial bullion market in India but GoldZouq is not liable for the prices offered by the Sellers and it is your responsibility to verify with the Seller prior to the purchase. It is hereby clarified that such market-linked prices of gold shall constitute fully binding offers and would be an invitation to offer to purchase gold at the said prices to all customers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you understand that these prices may vary multiple times within a day, and accordingly, your payment obligations for any order will depend on the market-linked prices prevailing. While reasonable efforts will be made to offer you a competitive price by the Sellers for the Gold, there is no guarantee that the price offered to You will be close to or comparable with other prices available in the market.
Your content:
Content that you post using our Services is your content (so let’s refer to it as “Your Content”). We don’t make any claim to it. That includes anything you post using our Services (like shop names, profile pictures, listing
photos, listing descriptions, reviews, comments, videos, usernames, etc.).
Responsibility for Your Content:
You understand that you are solely responsible for Your Content. You represent that you have all necessary rights to Your Content and that you’re not infringing or violating any third party’s rights by posting it. Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and credit card numbers. Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files; and user Content that, in the sole judgment of GoldZouq, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas or our Site, or which may expose GoldZouq or its users to any harm or liability of any type. GoldZouq takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content posted, stored or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor is GoldZouq liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter. Your use of Interactive Areas is at your own risk.
Permission to Use Your Content:
By posting Your Content through our Services, you grant GoldZouq a license to use it. We don’t claim any ownership of Your Content, but we have your permission to use it to help GoldZouq function and grow. That
way, we won’t infringe on any rights you have in Your Content and we can help promote your stuff. For usage of the GoldZouq Application, below permissions are required thus on granting the access, we have your
permission to use it to help the GoldZouq function.
Contact: This permission enables the user to be able to save supplier contact details directly from the GoldZouq.com application to his/her contact list.
Camera: This permission enables users to take photos & videos to facilitate communications when corresponding with suppliers through the messenger system.
Location: This permission enables users to search for suppliers &/or products based on location.
Phone: This permission enables the user to dial directly to the supplier from the GoldZouq.com application.
Storage: This permission supports images, and page caches & facilitates the loading of pages.
SMS: The permission supports SMS to receive & send SMS of GoldZouq messages.
We frequently send messages requesting email signup, SMS alerts, and promotional, transaction and non-transaction messages. If you don’t wish to receive such messages you can unsubscribe anytime but we normally send such messages to each member. Sync and Store Contacts: We'll periodically sync and store your contact to help you and others to connect. Choose who to invite and know who is already using GoldZouq. We use this information to improve your experience and allow you and your network to be better connected. Also, we use this information to suggest relevant contacts for you to connect with and grow your business network. It's the quickest way to find new connections and connect with your professional contacts. We respect your contact information and never message anyone on your behalf without your permission. GoldZouq may provide links to Web pages and content of third parties as a service to those interested in this information. GoldZouq does not monitor or have any control over any Third Party Content or third-party Sites. GoldZouq does not represent or warrant the accuracy of any information provided and undertakes no responsibility to update or review any Third Party Content. Users use these links and Third Party Content contained therein at their own risk.
Rights You Grant GoldZouq
By posting Your Content, you grant GoldZouq a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub licensable, perpetual license to use, display, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, store, and prepare derivative works of Your Content. This allows us to provide the Services and to promote GoldZouq, your GoldZouq shop, or the Services in general, in any format and through any channels, including across any GoldZouq Services, our
partners, or third-party website or advertising medium. You agree not to assert any moral rights or rights of publicity against us for using Your Content. You also recognize our legitimate interest in using it, in accordance with this license, to the extent Your Content contains any personal information. That sounds like a lot, but it’s necessary for us to keep GoldZouq going. Consider these examples: if you upload a photo of a listing on your GoldZouq shop, first, we have permission to display it to buyers, and second, we can resize it so it looks good to a buyer using our mobile app; if you post a description in English, we can translate it into French so a buyer in Paris can learn the story behind your item; and if you post a beautiful photo of your latest handmade necklace, we can feature it on our homepage, in one of our blogs or even on a billboard to help promote your business and GoldZouq’s.
Reporting Unauthorized Content:
GoldZouq has great respect for intellectual property rights, and is committed to following appropriate legal procedures to remove infringing content from the Services. If content that you own or have rights to has
been posted to the Services without your permission and you want it removed, please follow the steps listed in our Intellectual Property Policy. If Your Content infringes on another person’s intellectual property, we will
remove it if we receive proper notice. We’ll notify you if that happens.
Inappropriate, False, or Misleading Content:
This should be common sense, but there are certain types of content we don’t want to be posted on GoldZouq’s Services (for legal reasons or otherwise). You agree that you will not post any content that is abusive, threatening, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, or otherwise offensive or in violation of our Prohibited Items Policy, Community Policy, or any part of our Terms. You also agree not to post any content that is false and
misleading or uses the Services in a manner that is fraudulent or deceptive.
Report abuse:
Without limiting other remedies, we may limit, suspend, or terminate your user account(s) and access to our Services, restrict or prohibit access to, and your activities on, our Services, cancel bids, remove or demote or
otherwise restrict the visibility of listings, delay or remove hosted content, remove any special status associated with the account, reduce or eliminate any discounts, and take technical and legal steps to keep you from using our Services if:
● we think that you are creating problems or possible legal liabilities;
● we think that such restrictions will improve the security of the GoldZouq community or reduce our or another GoldZouq user's exposure to financial liabilities;
● we think that you are infringing the rights of third parties;
● we think that you are acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this User Agreement or our policies or abuse our employees or users;
● despite our reasonable endeavors, we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or
● You fail to make full payment of any fees due for our Services by your payment due date.