1.1”YAT” is the trading name for the YAT ministries listed at Appendix 1. YAT operates an e-commerce platform consisting of a website and together with music,  souvenirs for the sale and purchase of consumer products and services (“products”) in its allocated territory as defined at Appendix 1 (“territory”).

1.2These general terms and conditions shall apply to buyers and sellers on the marketplace and shall govern your use of the marketplace and related services.

1.3By using our marketplace, you accept these general terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these general terms and conditions or any part of these general terms and conditions, you must not use our marketplace.

1.4If you use our marketplace in the course of a business or other organizational project, then by so doing you:

2.1You may not register with our marketplace if you are under 18 years of age (by using our marketplace or agreeing to these general terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age).

2.2If you register for an account with our marketplace, you will be asked to provide an email address/user ID and password and you agree to:

2.3Your account shall be used exclusively by you and you shall not transfer your account to any third party. If you authorize any third party to manage your account on your behalf this shall be at your own risk.

2.4We may suspend or cancel your account, and/or edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion and without notice or explanation, providing that if we cancel any products or services you have paid for but not received, and you have not breached these general terms and conditions, we will refund you in respect of the same. See section 4.2 below for further information about refunds.

2.5You may cancel your account on our marketplace by contacting us as provided at section 26.

4.2Refunds in respect of returned products shall be managed in accordance with the refunds page on the marketplace, as may be amended from time to time. Our rules on refunds shall be exercised in our discretion, subject to applicable laws of the territory. We may offer refunds, in our discretion:

4.4Changes to our returns page or refunds page shall be effective in respect of all purchases made from the date of publication of the change on our website.

5.1You must make payments due under these general terms and conditions in accordance with the Payments Information and Guidelines on the shop

6.1Store credits may be earned and managed in accordance with the YAT Store Credit Terms and Conditions, as may be amended from time to time. Jumia reserves the right to cancel or withdraw Jumia store credit rewards for any reason in its discretion, including if we suspect fraud or foul play. You can view the Jumia Store Credit terms and conditions and information about your YAT store credit account on our website and mobile application.

7.1Promotions and competitions run by YAT and/or other promoters shall be managed in accordance with the Promotions Terms and Conditions, where applicable. You can view Promotions Terms and Conditions where they apply on our website.

10.1In this section 10 words “marketplace” and “website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to YAT´s websites.

10.2You may:

10.3In this section 10 words “marketplace” and “website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to YAT’s websites and mobile applications.

10.5Except as expressly permitted by these general terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

10.6Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

10.7Notwithstanding section 10.6, you may forward links to products on our website and redistribute our newsletter and promotional materials in print and electronic form to any person.

10.8We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

10.9You must not:

11.1Subject to the express provisions of these general terms and conditions:

11.2YAT’s logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

11.3The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.

12.1Buyers agree to processing of their personal data in accordance with the terms of YAT’s Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice.

12.2YAT shall process all personal data obtained through the marketplace and related services in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy.

Due diligence and audit rights

13.1We operate an anti-fraud and anti-money laundering compliance program and reserve the right to perform due diligence checks on all users of the marketplace.

13.2You agree to provide to us all such information, documentation and access to your business premises as we may require:

15.1Nothing in these general terms and conditions will:

15.2The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section 15 and elsewhere in these general terms and conditions:

15.3In respect of the services offered to you free of charge we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.

15.4Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these general terms and conditions shall not exceed the total amount paid and payable to us under the contract. Each separate transaction on the marketplace shall constitute a separate contract for the purpose of this section 15.4.

15.5Notwithstanding section 15.4 above, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature, including in respect of:

15.6We accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the marketplace or these general terms and conditions (this will not limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

15.7Our marketplace includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations. We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

16.1You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against:

17.1If we permit the registration of an account on our marketplace it will remain open indefinitely, subject to these general terms and conditions.

17.2If you breach these general terms and conditions, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these general terms and conditions or any YAT codes, policies or guidelines in any way we may:

17.3Where we suspend, prohibit or block your access to our marketplace or a part of our marketplace you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

18.1These general terms and conditions and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines (and in respect of sellers the seller terms and conditions) shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our marketplace and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our marketplace.

19.1Should these general terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions, and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines be in conflict, these terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines shall prevail in the order here stated.

20.1We may revise these general terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions, and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines from time to time.

20.2The revised general terms and conditions shall apply from the date of publication on the marketplace.

21.1No waiver of any breach of any provision of these general terms and conditions shall be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any other breach of that provision or any breach of any other provision of these general terms and conditions.

22.1If a provision of these general terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

22.2If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these general terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

23.1You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.

23.2You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.

24.1A contract under these general terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

24.2The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these general terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

25.1These general terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the territory.

25.2Any disputes relating to these general terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the territory.

26.1You can contact us by using the contact details listed in Appendix 1.

26.3You consent to receive notices electronically from us. We may provide all communications and information related to your use of the marketplace in electronic format, either by posting to our website or application, or by email to the email address on your account. All such communications will be deemed to be notices in writing and received by and properly given to you.

1. Introduction

   1.2These general terms and conditions shall apply to buyers  on the marketplace and shall govern your use of the marketplace and related services.
   

   1.3By using our marketplace, you accept these general terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these general terms and conditions or any part of these general terms and conditions, you must not use our marketplace.

   1.4If you use our marketplace in the course of a business or other organizational project, then by so doing you:

   1.4.1confirm that you have obtained the necessary authority to agree to these general terms and conditions;

   1.4.2bind both yourself and the person, company or other legal entity that operates that business or organizational project, to these general terms and conditions; and

   1.4.3agree that “you” in these general terms and conditions shall reference both the individual user and the relevant person, company or legal entity unless the context requires otherwise.

2. Registration and account

   2.1You may not register with our marketplace if you are under 18 years of age (by using our marketplace or agreeing to these general terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age).

   2.2If you register for an account with our marketplace, you will be asked to provide an email address/user ID and password and you agree to:

   2.2.1keep your password confidential;

   2.2.2notify us in writing immediately (using our contact details provided at section 26) if you become aware of any disclosure of your password; and

   2.2.3be responsible for any activity on our marketplace arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and you acknowledge that you may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

   2.3Your account shall be used exclusively by you and you shall not transfer your account to any third party. If you authorize any third party to manage your account on your behalf this shall be at your own risk.

   2.4We may suspend or cancel your account, and/or edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion and without notice or explanation, providing that if we cancel any products or services you have paid for but not received, and you have not breached these general terms and conditions, we will refund you in respect of the same. See section 4.2 below for further information about refunds.

   2.5You may cancel your account on our marketplace by contacting us as provided at section 26.

4. Returns and refunds

   4.1Returns of products by buyers and acceptance of returned products by sellers shall be managed by us in accordance with the returns page on the marketplace, as may be amended from time to time. Acceptance of returns shall be in our discretion, subject to compliance with applicable laws of the territory.

   4.2Refunds in respect of returned products shall be managed in accordance with the refunds page on the marketplace, as may be amended from time to time. Our rules on refunds shall be exercised in our discretion, subject to applicable laws of the territory. We may offer refunds, in our discretion:

   4.2.1in respect of the product price;

   4.2.2in respect of local and/or international shipping fees (as stated on the refunds page); and

   4.2.3by way of store credits, vouchers, mobile money transfer, bank transfers or such other methods as we may determine from time to time.

   4.3Returned products shall be accepted and refunds issued by Jumia, acting for and on behalf of the seller. Notwithstanding paragraphs 4.1 and 4.2 above, in respect of digital products or services and fresh food, YAT shall issue refunds in respect of failures in delivery only. Refunds of payment for such products for any other reasons shall be subject to the seller’s terms and conditions of sale.

   4.4Changes to our returns page or refunds page shall be effective in respect of all purchases made from the date of publication of the change on our website.

5. Payments

   5.1You must make payments due under these general terms and conditions in accordance with the Payments Information and Guidelines on the marketplace.

6. Store credit

   6.1Store credits may be earned and managed in accordance with the YAT Store Credit Terms and Conditions, as may be amended from time to time. YAT reserves the right to cancel or withdraw YAT store credit rewards for any reason in its discretion, including if we suspect fraud or foul play. You can view the YAT Store Credit terms and conditions and information about your YAT store credit account on our website.

7. Promotions

   7.1Promotions and competitions run by YAT and/or other promoters shall be managed in accordance with the Promotions Terms and Conditions, where applicable. You can view Promotions Terms and Conditions where they apply on our website or mobile application.

8. Use of website 
   

9. 10.1In this section 10 words “marketplace” and “website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to Jumia’s websites and mobile applications.

   10.2You may:

   10.2.1view pages from our website in a web browser;

   10.2.2download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

   10.2.3print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;

   10.2.4stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and

   10.2.5use our marketplace services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these general terms and conditions.

   10.3In this section 10 words “marketplace” and “website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to YAT’s websites and mobile applications.

   10.4You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes in respect of selling or purchasing products on the marketplace.

   10.5Except as expressly permitted by these general terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

   10.6Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

   10.6.1republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

   10.6.2sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

   10.6.3show any material from our website in public;

   10.6.4exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

   10.6.5redistribute material from our website.

   10.7Notwithstanding section 10.6, you may forward links to products on our website and redistribute our newsletter and promotional materials in print and electronic form to any person.

   10.8We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

   10.9You must not:

   10.9.1use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

   10.9.2use our website in any way that is unethical, unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

   10.9.3hack or otherwise tamper with our website;

   10.9.4probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

   10.9.5circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

   10.9.6use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

   10.9.7impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

   10.9.8decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;

   10.9.9conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

   10.9.10access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

   10.9.11use our website except by means of our public interfaces;

   10.9.12violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;

   10.9.13use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

   10.9.14do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

10. Copyright and trademarks

    11.1Subject to the express provisions of these general terms and conditions:

    11.1.1we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

    11.1.2all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

    11.2Jumia’s logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

    11.3The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.

11. Data privacy

    12.1Buyers agree to processing of their personal data in accordance with the terms of YAT’s Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice.

    12.2Jumia shall process all personal data obtained through the marketplace and related services in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy.

    Due diligence and audit rights
    

12. 13.1We operate an anti-fraud and anti-money laundering compliance program and reserve the right to perform due diligence checks on all users of the marketplace.

    13.2You agree to provide to us all such information, documentation and access to your business premises as we may require:

    13.2.1in order to verify your adherence to, and performance of, your obligations under these terms and conditions;

    13.2.2for the purpose of disclosures pursuant to a valid order by a court or other governmental body; or

    13.2.3as otherwise required by law or applicable regulation.

13. Limitations and exclusions of liability
    

14. 15.1Nothing in these general terms and conditions will:

    15.1.1limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

    15.1.2exclude any liabilities or statutory rights that may not be excluded under applicable law.

    15.2The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section 15 and elsewhere in these general terms and conditions:

    15.2.1are subject to section 15.1; and

    15.2.2govern all liabilities arising under these general terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these general terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these general terms and conditions.

    15.3In respect of the services offered to you free of charge we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.

    15.4Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these general terms and conditions shall not exceed the total amount paid and payable to us under the contract. Each separate transaction on the marketplace shall constitute a separate contract for the purpose of this section 15.4.

    15.5Notwithstanding section 15.4 above, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature, including in respect of:

    15.5.1any losses occasioned by any interruption or dysfunction to the website;

    15.5.2any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;

    15.5.3any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill;

    15.5.4any loss or corruption of any data, database or software; or

    15.5.5any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

    15.6We accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the marketplace or these general terms and conditions (this will not limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

    15.7Our marketplace includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations. We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

15. Indemnification

    16.1You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against:

    16.1.1any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to any third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our marketplace or any breach by you of any provision of these general terms and conditions or the Jumia codes, policies or guidelines; and

    16.1.2any VAT liability or other tax liability that we may incur in relation to any sale, supply or purchase made through our marketplace, where that liability arises out of your failure to pay, withhold, declare or register to pay any VAT or other tax properly due in any jurisdiction.

16. Breaches of these general terms and conditions

    17.1If we permit the registration of an account on our marketplace it will remain open indefinitely, subject to these general terms and conditions.

    17.2If you breach these general terms and conditions, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these general terms and conditions or any YAT codes, policies or guidelines in any way we may:

    17.2.1temporarily suspend your access to our marketplace;

    17.2.2permanently prohibit you from accessing our marketplace;

    17.2.3block computers using your IP address from accessing our marketplace;

    17.2.4contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our marketplace;

    17.2.5suspend or delete your account on our marketplace; and/or

    17.2.6commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.

    17.3Where we suspend, prohibit or block your access to our marketplace or a part of our marketplace you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

17. Entire agreement

    18.1These general terms and conditions and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines (and in respect of sellers the seller terms and conditions) shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our marketplace and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our marketplace.

18. Hierarchy

    19.1Should these general terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions, and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines be in conflict, these terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions and the YAT codes, policies and guidelines shall prevail in the order here stated.

19. 20.2The revised general terms and conditions shall apply from the date of publication on the marketplace.

20. No waiver

    21.1No waiver of any breach of any provision of these general terms and conditions shall be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any other breach of that provision or any breach of any other provision of these general terms and conditions.

21. Severability

    22.1If a provision of these general terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

    22.2If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these general terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

22. Assignment

    23.1You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.

    23.2You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.

23. Third party rights

    24.1A contract under these general terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

    24.2The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these general terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

24. Law and jurisdiction

    25.1These general terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the territory.

    25.2Any disputes relating to these general terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the territory.

25. Our company details and notices

    26.1You can contact us by using the contact details listed in Appendix 1.

    26.3You consent to receive notices electronically from us. We may provide all communications and information related to your use of the marketplace in electronic format, either by posting to our website or application, or by email to the email address on your account. All such communications will be deemed to be notices in writing and received by and properly given to you.