Last updated on: December 10, 2020
By signing up for a Whicart Account (as defined in Section 1) or by using any Whicart Services (as defined below), you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the “Terms of Service”).
As used in these Terms of Service, “we”, “us” and “Whicart” means the applicable Whicart Contracting Party (as defined in Section 4 below).
The services offered by Whicart under the Terms of Service include various products and services to help you sell goods and services to buyers, whether online (“Online Services”) by enabling you to create and build your own online store, in person (“POS Services”), or both. Any such services offered by Whicart are referred to in these Terms of Services as the “Services”. Any new features or tools which are added to the current Services shall be also subject to the Terms of Service. You can review the current version of the Terms of Service at any time at https://www.Whicart.com/legal/terms. Whicart reserves the right to update and change the Terms of Service by posting updates and changes to the Whicart website. You are advised to check the Terms of Service from time to time for any updates or changes that may impact you. and if you do not accept such amendments, you must cease using the Services.
You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained or expressly referenced in these Terms of Service, including Whicart’s Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) and Privacy Policy, and, if applicable, the Supplementary Terms of Service for E.U. Merchants ("EU Terms"), the Whicart API License and Terms of Use (“API Terms”) and the Whicart Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”) before you may sign up for a Whicart Account or use any Whicart Service. Additionally, if you offer goods or services in relation to COVID-19, you must read, acknowledge and agree to the Rules of Engagement for Sale of COVID-19 Related Products.
Everyday language summaries are provided for convenience only and appear in bold under each section, but these summaries are not legally binding. Please read the Terms of Service, including any document referred to in these Terms of Service, for the complete picture of your legal requirements. By using Whicart or any Whicart services, you are agreeing to these terms. Be sure to occasionally check back for updates.
2.1 Store Owner
2.2 Staff Accounts
2.3 PayPal Express Checkout and Whicart Payments Accounts
2.4 Apple Pay for Safari Account
2.5 Google Payment
Upon completion of sign up for the Service, if you have been enrolled in Whicart Payments, Whicart will also create a Google Payment account on your behalf. If you do not wish to keep your Google Payment account active, it is your responsibility to deactivate it. For the avoidance of doubt, Google Payment is a Third Party Service, as defined in Section 17 of these Terms of Service.
If you use a Google Payment supported payment gateway and your customers have enabled Google Payment, customers may purchase goods and services from your Store using Google Payment.
By using Google Payment on your Store, you are agreeing to be bound by the Google Payment API Terms of Service, as they may be amended by Google from time to time. If Google amends the Google Payment API Terms of Service, the amended and restated version will be posted here: https://payments.developers.google.com/terms/sellertos. Such amendments to the Google Payment API Terms of Service are effective as of the date of posting. Your continued use of Google Payment on your Store after the amended Google Payment API Terms of Service are posted constitutes your agreement to, and acceptance of, the amended Google Payment API Terms of Service. If you do not agree to any changes to the Google Payment API Terms of Service, de-activate your Google Payment account and do not continue to use Google Payment on your Store.
2.6 Domain Names
You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Service, including the AUP, the Privacy Policy, and, if you operate a E.U. based Store, the EU Terms, before you may become a Whicart User. Additionally, you acknowledge and agree to the Rules of Engagement for the Sale of COVID-19 Related Products if you sell such products.
If the billing address of your Store is located in the United States or Canada, this Section 4(1) applies to you:
a. “Whicart Contracting Party” means Whicart Inc., a Canadian corporation, with offices located at 151 O’Connor Street, Ground floor, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2L8.
b. The parties irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario with respect to any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with the Terms of Service. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to these Terms of Service and is hereby expressly excluded.
If the billing address of your Store is located in the Asia Pacific region (including Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Singapore), this Section 4(2) applies to you:
a. “Whicart Contracting Party” means Whicart Commerce Singapore Pte. Ltd, a corporation formed under the laws of Singapore, with offices located at 77 Robinson Road, #13-00 Robinson 77, Singapore 068896.
b. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of Singapore are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of or in connection with the Terms of Service and that accordingly any proceedings arising out of or in connection with the Terms of Service shall be brought in such courts. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to these Terms of Service and is hereby expressly excluded.
If the billing address of your Store is located in EMEA region or other jurisdictions not listed in Section 4(1) or 4(2), including Europe and Russia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Caribbean, or Mexico this Section 4(3) applies to you:
a. “Whicart Contracting Party” means Whicart International Limited, a private company limited by shares, incorporated in Ireland under registration number 560279, with its registered offices located at 2nd Floor Victoria Buildings, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland, VAT number IE 3347697KH and its website is at https://www.Whicart.com/.
b. You irrevocably and unconditionally agree to submit to the jurisdiction of Irish courts, which have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with the validity, effect, interpretation or performance of these Terms of Service and you similarly irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to any claim that any suit, action or proceeding has been brought by Whicart in any other jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to these Terms of Service and is hereby expressly excluded.
“Confidential Information” shall include, but shall not be limited to, any and all information associated with a party’s business and not publicly known, including specific business information, technical processes and formulas, software, customer lists, prospective customer lists, names, addresses and other information regarding customers and prospective customers, product designs, sales, costs (including any relevant processing fees), price lists, and other unpublished financial information, business plans and marketing data, and any other confidential and proprietary information, whether or not marked as confidential or proprietary. Whicart’s Confidential Information includes all information that you receive relating to us, or to the Services, that is not known to the general public including information related to our security program and practices.
Each party agrees to use the other party’s Confidential Information solely as necessary for performing its obligations under these Terms of Service and in accordance with any other obligations in these Terms of Service including this Section 6. Each party agrees that it shall take all reasonable steps, at least substantially equivalent to the steps it takes to protect its own proprietary information, to prevent the duplication, disclosure or use of any such Confidential Information, other than (i) by or to its employees, agents and subcontractors who must have access to such Confidential Information to perform such party’s obligations hereunder, who each shall treat such Confidential Information as provided herein, and who are each subject to obligations of confidentiality to such party that are at least as stringent as those contained herein; or (ii) as required by any law, regulation, or order of any court of proper jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter contained in these Terms of Service, provided that, if legally permitted, the receiving party shall give the disclosing party prompt written notice and use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that such disclosure is accorded confidential treatment. Confidential Information shall not include any information that the receiving party can prove: (A) was already in the public domain, or was already known by or in the possession of the receiving party, at the time of disclosure of such information; (B) is independently developed by the receiving party without use of or reference to the other party’s Confidential Information, and without breaching any provisions of these Terms of Service; or (C) is thereafter rightly obtained by the receiving party from a source other than the disclosing party without breaching any provision of these Terms of Service.
The failure of Whicart to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Service, including all terms and conditions and other documents it incorporates by reference, is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, such provision shall be changed and interpreted so as to best accomplish the objectives of the original provision to the fullest extent allowed by law, and the remaining provision of the Terms of Service shall remain in full force and effect.
The Terms of Service, including the documents it incorporates by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and Whicart and govern your use of the Services and your Account, superseding any prior agreements between you and Whicart (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service).
In addition to the terms applicable to Services generally, the following terms apply to your access and use of the POS Services. The POS Services include the Whicart POS software (“POS Software”), the Whicart POS website, located at /pos, programs, documentation, apps, tools, internet-based services and components, Whicart’s POS hardware (“POS Equipment”) and any updates thereto provided to you by Whicart.
You can purchase shipping labels from within your Whicart administrative console (“Whicart Shipping”) for delivery of goods purchased from you from your Whicart Store. In addition to these Terms of Service, your access to and use of Whicart Shipping is subject to the Whicart Shipping Terms of Service, located at (a) https://www.Whicart.com/legal/terms-shipping-us if you are located in the United States; (b) https://www.Whicart.com/legal/terms-shipping-ca, if you are located in Canada; and (c) https://www.Whicart.com/legal/terms-shipping-global, if you are located outside of Canada and the United States.
You may generate or send email from your Account using the Whicart email services (the “Email Services”). In addition to the terms applicable to the Services generally (including Whicart’s Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy), the following terms apply to your access and use of the Email Services:
Whicart employs certain controls to scan the content of emails you deliver using the Email Services prior to delivery (“Content Scanning”). Such Content Scanning is intended to limit spam, phishing, or other malicious content that contravenes these Terms of Service, or Whicart’s Acceptable Use Policy (collectively, “Threats”). By using the Email Services, you explicitly grant Whicart the right to employ such Content Scanning. Whicart does not warrant that the Email Services will be free from Threats, and each Whicart merchant is responsible for all content generated by their respective Stores.
BY GENERATING OR SENDING EMAIL THROUGH THE EMAIL SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS (THE “EMAIL SERVICES REQUIREMENTS”). Whicart, OR ITS THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS, MAY SUSPEND OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE EMAIL SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE EMAIL SERVICES REQUIREMENTS.
If You or a customer knows of or suspects any violations of the Email Services Requirements, please notify Whicart at abuse@Whicart.com. Whicart will determine compliance with the Email Services Requirements in its discretion.
Whicart’s Email Services utilize Third Party Providers, including SendGrid (a Twilio Company). Your use of the Email Services is subject to SendGrid’s Acceptable Use Policy as it may be amended by SendGrid from time to time.
From time to time, Whicart may, in its sole discretion, invite you to use, on a trial basis, pre-release or beta features that are in development and not yet available to all merchants (“Beta Services”). Beta Services may be subject to additional terms and conditions, which Whicart will provide to you prior to your use of the Beta Services. Such Beta Services and all associated conversations and materials relating thereto will be considered Whicart Confidential Information and subject to the confidentiality provisions in this agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that you will not make any public statements or otherwise disclose your participation in the Beta Services without Whicart’s prior written consent. Whicart makes no representations or warranties that the Beta Services will function. Whicart may discontinue the Beta Services at any time in its sole discretion. Whicart will have no liability for any harm or damage arising out of or in connection with a Beta Service. The Beta Services may not work in the same way as a final version. Whicart may change or not release a final or commercial version of a Beta Service in our sole discretion.
Whicart welcomes any ideas and/or suggestions regarding improvements or additions to the Services. Under no circumstances shall any disclosure of any idea, suggestion or related material or any review of the Services, Third Party Services or any Third Party Provider (collectively, “Feedback") to Whicart be subject to any obligation of confidentiality or expectation of compensation. By submitting Feedback to Whicart (whether submitted directly to Whicart or posted on any Whicart hosted forum or page), you waive any and all rights in the Feedback and that Whicart is free to implement and use the Feedback if desired, as provided by you or as modified by Whicart, without obtaining permission or license from you or from any third party. Any reviews of a Third Party Service or Third Party Provider that you submit to Whicart must be accurate to the best of your knowledge, and must not be illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable. Whicart reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit Feedback of Third Party Services or Third Party Providers, but does not regularly inspect posted Feedback.
Whicart supports the protection of intellectual property and asks Whicart merchants to do the same. It’s our policy to respond to all notices of alleged copyright infringement. If someone believes that one of our merchants is infringing their intellectual property rights, they can send a DMCA Notice to Whicart’s designated agent using our form. Upon receiving a DMCA Notice, we may remove or disable access to the Materials claimed to be a copyright infringement. Once provided with a notice of takedown, the merchant can reply with a counter notification using our form if they object to the complaint. The original complainant has 14 business days after we receive a counter notification to seek a court order restraining the merchant from engaging in the infringing activity, otherwise we restore the material. For more information, see our DMCA Notice and Takedown Procedure.
Save for Whicart and its affiliates, Whicart Users or anyone accessing Whicart Services pursuant to these Terms of Service, unless otherwise provided in these Terms of Service, no person or entity who is not a party to these Terms of Service shall have any right to enforce any term of these Terms of Service, regardless of whether such person or entity has been identified by name, as a member of a class or as answering a particular description. For the avoidance of doubt, this shall not affect the rights of any permitted assignee or transferee of these Terms.
Whicart is firmly committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information and the personal information of your customers. By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that Whicart’s collection, usage and disclosure of this personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy.
Additionally, if: (a) you are established in the European Economic Area (EEA); (b) you provide goods or services to customers in the EEA; or (c) you are otherwise subject to the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Whicart’s collection and use of personal information of any European residents is also subject to our Data Processing Addendum.
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