Terms and Conditions
Buyer Protection Money Back Guarantee” or “Basic Buyer Protection” Rules, Terms & Conditions (the “Official Rules”)
These Terms & Conditions apply to the “Buyer Protection Money Back Guarantee” or “Basic Buyer Protection” in Akatale Mega Shop (the “Buyer Protection”).
1. Promoter: The contracting party determined in accordance with the section “1.1 Contracting Party” of the Akatale Mega Shop Transaction Services Agreement (“Akatale Mega Shop” or the “Promoter”). All people that are willing to run their ads on Akatale Mega Shop are reqiured to pay 5000 Ugandan Shillings per product/service, this is valid for the next two months after payments has been approved so that his/her product can be allowed to run or appear in the client side where clients call you directly to finalize business.All items whose payment has not been approved or expired paid period will remain pending until the owner pays for whta he has uploaded or repays after the expiration date of what he paid for. Remeber Akatale Mega Shop is a marketplace in Uganda for both small scale and large scale businesses.
2. Eligible Member: You must be a registered member of Akatale Mega Shop with a valid account and have successfully made and completed a purchase of goods and/or services on Akatale Mega Shop.
3. Buyer Protection Period: The number of days (appearing/confirmed on the product listing page at the time when the Eligible Member completed the purchase from the seller on Akatale Mega Shop) which the seller guarantees the Eligible Member that it would receive the goods and/or services ordered from the seller, start counting from the day the Eligible Member completes such purchase on Akatale Mega Shop.
4. Rules: a. If the Eligible Member does not receive the goods and/or services within Buyer Protection Period or receives goods and/or services that are sub-standard in its view, the Eligible Member may initiate the dispute procedures as stipulated in Akatale Mega Shop under “Disputes and Reports” to report this incident (“Dispute Procedures”) to Akatale Mega Shop.
b. During the Dispute Procedures, Akatale Mega Shop will investigate this incident considering (but not limited to) the following factors:
i. Whether goods and/or services received by the Eligible Member are damaged, defective, or are substantially different from what has been presented or described on the product listing page;
ii. Whether the non-arrival of goods and/or services to the Eligible Member is due to factors beyond its control;
iii. Whether the non-arrival of goods and/or services to the Eligible Member is due to error or miscommunication on the part of the Eligible Member (eg providing incorrect shipping address etc); or
iv. Whether the goods and/or services are returned to the seller due to such goods and/or services not being able to clear customs.
c. Akatale Mega Shop may ask the Eligible Member for relevant information, documentation, records and/or other evidence to support Eligible Member’s claim.
d. After the Dispute Procedures, Akatale Mega Shop will make a determination (which is final and not subject to appeal). If the determination is in favor of the Eligible Member, subject to the terms of the Official Rules (including but not limited to the force majeure clause below), the Eligible Member will be eligible for a refund within 15 days after the completion of the Dispute Procedures. Such refund will be generally credited to the same means of payment used by the Eligible Member when placing the affected order on Akatale Mega Shop, unless the parties have agreed on some other means and subject to the relevant technical constraints.
5. General Rules:
a. By participating in this Buyer Protection, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules.
b. Any fraud and/or abuse by you (as determined by the Promoter at its sole discretion) will result in forfeiture of your eligibility to this Buyer Protection and/or rights under these Official Rules.
c. Akatale Mega Shop is not responsible for any late, lost, delayed, incomplete, illegible, misdirected or undeliverable entries, responses, or other correspondence, whether by e-mail or otherwise.
d. The eligibility to this Buyer Protection shall be determined by Akatale Mega Shop at their sole discretion based on the Promoter’s record. If there is any discrepancy between the record of transaction held by you and that held by the Promoter, the Promoter’s record shall be conclusive and binding on you.
e. Akatale Mega Shop reserves the right to amend these Official Rules without prior notice. In the event of disputes, the decision of the Promoter shall be final and binding.
f. Akatale Mega Shop reserves the right and absolute discretion to cancel or revoke anyone’s right to participate in this Buyer Protection.
6. Force Majeure:
Under no circumstances shall Akatale Mega Shop be held liable to the Eligible Member for this Buyer Protection or any rights under these Official Rules due to or resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces or causes beyond the reasonable control of Akatale Mega Shop or the relevant seller, including without limitation, Internet failures, computer, telecommunications or any other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, flood, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, or non-performance of third parties or any suspension or disruption of transportation or business operation (including but not limited to delays or disruption of the resumption of work or operation ordered by any government agency) in the event of a national or regional spread of epidemic or pandemic.
7. Conflict of Terms and Conditions:
a. In case of any discrepancy in the content between the English and other non-English language versions of these Official Rules, the English version shall prevail.
b. In the event that any of the terms under these Official Rules conflict with rules and/or any such related information displayed elsewhere on Akatale Mega Shop, the terms under these Official Rules shall prevail. The Akatale Mega Shop Transaction Services Agreement shall prevail and complement these Rules
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