TERMS OF USE
Preamble
This document is an electronic record in terms of National Information Technology Development Agency Act
and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various
statutes as amended by the National Information Technology Development Agency Act. This electronic record
is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
Your use of the Masterbuildafrica website www.masterbuildafrica.com (hereinafter referred to as
"Masterbuildafrica.") and services and tools are governed by the following terms and conditions as applicable
to Masterbuildafrica. If you transact on Masterbuildafrica Platform, you shall be subject to the policies that are
applicable to the website for such transaction.
For the purpose of these terms of use, wherever the context so require ‘You’ shall mean any natural or legal
person who has agreed to become a member of the Website by providing Registration or Purchase Data while
registering on the Website as a Registered User using the computer systems of Masterbuildafrica.
When you use any of the services provided by Masterbuildafrica, including but not limited to, (e.g., Customer
Reviews), you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms and conditions applicable to such service,
and they shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Terms of Use and shall be considered as part and parcel
of this Terms of Use.
Masterbuildafrica reserves the right at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these
Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your
continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes.
As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, Masterbuildafrica grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-
transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.
ACCESSING, BROWSING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SITE INDICATES YOUR
AGREEMENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THIS AGREEMENT, SO
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING
1. Membership Eligibility
Use of the Masterbuildafrica Website is available only to persons who can form legally binding contracts under
the governing applicable laws. If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you shall not register as a
member of Masterbuildafrica and shall not transact or use Masterbuildafrica website. As a minor if you wish to
use or transact on Masterbuildafrica, such use or transaction may be made by your legal guardian or parents
who have registered as users of Masterbuildafrica.
Masterbuildafrica reserves the right to terminate your membership and refuse to provide you with access to
Masterbuildafrica if it is brought to Masterbuildafrica’ notice or if it is discovered that you are under the age of
18 years.
2. Your Account and Registration Obligations
If you use Masterbuildafrica, you shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your User ID and
Password and you shall be responsible for all activities that occur under your User ID and Password. You agreethat if you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete that Masterbuildafrica
has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or
not in accordance with the this Terms of Use, Masterbuildafrica has the right to indefinitely suspend or
terminate or block access of your membership with Masterbuildafrica and refuse to provide you with access to
the Website.
3. Communications
When You use the Website or send emails or other data, information or communication to Masterbuildafrica,
You agree and understand that You are communicating with Masterbuildafrica through electronic records and
You consent to receive communications via electronic records from Masterbuildafrica periodically and as and
when required. Masterbuildafrica may communicate with You by email or by such other mode of
communication, electronic or otherwise.
4. Charges
Membership on Masterbuildafrica is free as well as browsing the Site aside charges that are applicable for the
Sale, Featuring or Promotion of Products over specific time window or promo.
Masterbuildafrica may at its sole discretion introduce new services and modify some or all of the existing
services offered on Masterbuildafrica. In such an event Masterbuildafrica reserves, without notice to You, the
right to introduce fees for the new services offered or amend/introduce fees for existing services, as the case
may be. Changes to the Fee and related policies shall automatically become effective immediately once
implemented on Masterbuildafrica.
You shall be solely responsible for compliance of all applicable laws for making payments to Masterbuildafrica.
5. Use of Masterbuildafrica Website (www.masterbuildafrica.com)
You agree, undertake and confirm that your use of Masterbuildafrica shall be strictly governed by the following
binding principles:
You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that:
- a)
belongs to another person and to which You does not have any right to.
- b)
is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic,
libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging,
relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner
whatever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to "indecent
representation of women" or misleading in any way.
- c)
is patently offensive to the online community, such as sexually explicit content, or content that
promotes obscenity, pedophilia, racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any
group or individual;
- d)
harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- e)
involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
- f)
Promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
- g)
infringes upon or violates any third party's rights [(including, but not limited to, intellectual property
rights, rights of privacy (including without limitation unauthorized disclosure of a person's name,
email address, physical address or phone number) or rights of publicity
- h)
promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work (see "Copyright
complaint" below for instructions on how to lodge a complaint about uploaded copyrighted
material), such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to
circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated
music files.
- i) contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images not linked to or from
another accessible page
- j)provides material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or otherwise inappropriate manner or
solicits personal information from anyone;
- k)provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons,
violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
- l)contains video, photographs, or images of another person age 18 or older without his or her express
written consent and permission or those of any minor (regardless of whether you have consent from
the minor or his or her legal guardian).
- m)tries to gain unauthorized access or exceeds the scope of authorized access (as defined herein and in
other applicable Codes of Conduct or End User Access and License Agreements) to the Sites or to
profiles, blogs, communities, account information, bulletins, friend request, or other areas of the
Sites or solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes
from other users;
- n)engages in commercial activities and/or sales without Masterbuildafrica's prior written consent such
as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising and pyramid schemes, or the buying or selling of
"virtual" items related to the Sites. Throughout this Terms of Use, Masterbuildafrica "prior written
consent" means a communication coming from Masterbuildafrica Legal department, specifically in
response to your request, and specifically addressing the activity or conduct for which you seek
authorization;
- o)solicits gambling or engages in any gambling activity which Masterbuildafrica, in its sole discretion,
believes is or could be construed as being illegal;
- p)interferes with another user's use and enjoyment of Masterbuildafrica Website or any other
individual's user and enjoyment of similar services;
- q)refers to any website or URL that, in the sole discretion of Masterbuildafrica, contains material that
is inappropriate for the Masterbuildafrica Website or any other Website, contains content that would
be prohibited or violates the letter or spirit of these Terms of Use.
- r)harm minors in any way;
- s)infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party’s trade secrets or
rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen
items;
- t)violates any law for the time being in force; deceives or misleads the addressee/ users about the
origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in
nature;
- u)impersonate another person;
- v)contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any Trojan horses, worms,
time bombs, cancelbots, Easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage,
detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system,
data or personal information;
- w)threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of any nation, friendly relations with
foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence or
prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any nation.
- x)shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading;
- y)shall not, directly or indirectly, offer, attempt to offer, trade or attempt to trade in any item, the
dealing of which is prohibited or restricted in any manner under the provisions of any applicable law,
rule, regulation or guideline for the time being in force.
- z)shall not create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or
other suppliers; You shall not use any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other
automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process,
to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Website or any Content, or in any way
reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not
purposely made available through the Website. Masterbuildafrica reserves the right to bar any such
activity.
- aa)You shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of Masterbuildafrica
website, or any other systems or networks connected to Masterbuildafrica Website or to any
Masterbuildafrica’ server, computer, network, or to any of the services offered on or through
Masterbuildafrica Website, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.
- bb)You shall not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of Masterbuildafrica website or any network
connected to Masterbuildafrica website nor breach the security or authentication measures on
Masterbuildafrica website or any network connected to Masterbuildafrica Website.
- cc)You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor
to Masterbuildafrica Website, or any other customer of Masterbuildafrica, including any
Masterbuildafrica account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit Masterbuildafrica Website or
any service or information made available or offered by or through Masterbuildafrica Website, in any
way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal
identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by Masterbuildafrica
Website.
- dd)You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large
load on the infrastructure of Masterbuildafrica Website or Masterbuildafrica’s systems or networks,
or any systems or networks connected to Masterbuildafrica.
- ee)You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the
proper working of the Website or any transaction being conducted on the Website, or with any other
person’s use of the Website.
- ff)You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any
message or transmittal you send to Masterbuildafrica on or through the Website or any service
offered on or through the Website. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone
else, or impersonate any other individual or entity
- gg)You may not use the Website or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these
Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes
the rights of Masterbuildafrica or others. Solely to enable Masterbuildafrica to use the information
you supply us with, so that we are not violating any rights you might have in Your Information, you
agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable
(through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, database rights or any other rights
you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to
Your Information. Masterbuildafrica will only use Your Information in accordance with the terms
of use and Masterbuildafrica’s Privacy Policy. From time to time, you shall be responsible for
providing information relating to the items or services proposed to be sold by you. In this
connection, you undertake that all such information shall be accurate in all respects.
- hh)You shall not exaggerate or over emphasize the attributes of such items or services to mislead other
Users in any manner.
- ii)You shall not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other users of Masterbuildafrica to buy or
sell any products or services, including, but not limited to, products or services related being
displayed on Masterbuildafrica or related to Masterbuildafrica. You may not transmit any chain letters
or unsolicited commercial or junk email to other users via Masterbuildafrica. It shall be a violation
of these Terms of Use to use any information obtained from Masterbuildafrica in order to harass,
abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to another person
outside of Masterbuildafrica without Masterbuildafrica’ prior explicit consent. In order to protect
our users from such advertising or solicitation, Masterbuildafrica reserves the right to restrict the
number of messages or emails which a user may send to other users in any 24-hour period which
Masterbuildafrica deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
- jj)You understand that Masterbuildafrica has the right at all times to disclose any information (including
the identity of the persons providing information or materials on the Masterbuildafrica Website) asnecessary to satisfy any law, regulation or valid governmental request. This may include, without
limitation, disclosure of the information in connection with investigation of alleged illegal activity or
solicitation of illegal activity or in response to a lawful court order or subpoena. In addition, we can
(and you hereby expressly authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement
or other government officials, as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in
connection with the investigation and/or resolution of possible crimes, especially those that may
involve personal injury.
- kk) Masterbuildafrica reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the materials posted on
Masterbuildafrica website. Masterbuildafrica shall have the right to remove or edit any Content that
in its sole discretion violates, or is alleged to violate, any applicable law or either the spirit or letter
of these Terms of Use. Notwithstanding this right of Masterbuildafrica, YOU REMAIN SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU POST ON THE
Masterbuildafrica WEBSITE AND IN YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES. Please be advised that such
Content posted does not necessarily reflect the views of Masterbuildafrica. In no event shall
Masterbuildafrica assume or have any responsibility or liability for any Content posted or for any
claims, damages or losses resulting from use of Content and/or appearance of Content on
Masterbuildafrica. You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to all
Content you provide and all information it contains and that such Content shall not infringe any
proprietary or other rights of third parties or contain any libelous, tortuous, or otherwise unlawful
information.
- ll)
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found
on or through Masterbuildafrica, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and
any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely
between you and such advertiser. Masterbuildafrica shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or
damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such
advertisers on Masterbuildafrica. It is possible that other users (including unauthorized users or
“hackers”) may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on Masterbuildafrica and that you
may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials. It also is possible for others
to obtain personal information about you due to your use of Masterbuildafrica, and that the recipient
may use such information to harass or injure you. Masterbuildafrica does not approve of such
unauthorized uses but by using the Masterbuildafrica Website you acknowledge and agree that
Masterbuildafrica is not responsible for the use of any personal information that you publicly disclose
or share with others on Masterbuildafrica. Please carefully select the type of information that you
publicly disclose or share with others on Masterbuildafrica.
- mm) Masterbuildafrica shall have all the rights to take necessary action and claim damages that may occur
due to your involvement/participation in any way on your own or through group/s of People,
intentionally or unintentionally.
6. Contents Posted on Site
a) All text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music,
artwork and computer code (collectively, “Content”), including but not limited to the design, structure,
selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel” and arrangement of such Content, contained on
Masterbuildafrica is owned, controlled or licensed by or to Masterbuildafrica, and is protected by trade
dress, copyright, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair
competition laws.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of Masterbuildafrica and no Content may
be copied, reproduced, re-published, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated,
transmitted or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to any other computer, server, website or
other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without
Masterbuildafrica’ express prior written consent. You may use information on Masterbuildafricaproducts and services purposely made available by Masterbuildafrica for downloading from the Site,
provided that you shall
- 1. not remove any proprietary notice language in all copies of such documents,
- 2. use such information only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not
copy or post such information on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media,
- 3. make no modifications to any such information, and
- 4. not make any additional representations or warranties relating to such documents. You shall be
responsible for any notes, messages, e-mails, billboard postings, photos, drawings, profiles,
opinions, ideas, images, videos, audio files or other materials or information posted or transmitted
to the Sites (collectively, "Content"). Such Content will become the property of Masterbuildafrica
and you grant Masterbuildafrica the worldwide, perpetual and transferable rights in such Content.
Masterbuildafrica shall be entitled to, consistent with our Privacy Policy, use the Content or any
of its elements for any type of use forever, including but not limited to promotional and advertising
purposes and in any media whether now known or hereafter devised, including the creation of
derivative works that may include Content you provide.
- 5. You agree that any Content you post may be used by Masterbuildafrica, consistent with our Privacy
Policy and Rules of Conduct on Site as mentioned herein, and you are not entitled to any payment
or other compensation for such use.
7. Other Businesses
Masterbuildafrica does not take responsibility or liability for the actions, products, content and services on
Masterbuildafrica website, which are linked to Affiliates and / or third party websites using Masterbuildafrica
APIs or otherwise. In addition, Masterbuildafrica may provide links to the third party websites of affiliated
companies and certain other businesses for which, Masterbuildafrica assumes no responsibility for examining
or evaluating the products and services offered by them, and Masterbuildafrica does not warrant the offerings
of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of such third party website(s). Masterbuildafrica does
not in any way endorse any third party website(s) or content thereof
8. Links
Masterbuildafrica welcomes links to this site. You may establish a hypertext link to Masterbuildafrica website,
provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by Masterbuildafrica.
You must not use on your site or in any other manner any trademarks, service marks or any other materials
appearing on Masterbuildafrica, including any logos or characters, without the express written consent of
Masterbuildafrica and the owner of the mark or materials. You must not frame or otherwise incorporate into
another third party website or present in conjunction with or juxtaposed against such a website any of the
content or other materials on the Masterbuildafrica website without Masterbuildafrica’ prior written consent.
9. Privacy
We view protection of Your privacy as a very important principle. We understand clearly that you and Your
Personal Information is one of our most important assets. We store and process Your Information on
computers that may be protected by physical as well as reasonable technological security measures and
procedures in accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules there under. If you object to your
Information being transferred or used in this way please do not use Masterbuildafrica Website
MANDATORY DECLARATION
1. Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability
This website, all the materials and products (including but not limited to software) and services, included on or
otherwise made available to you through this site are provided on Masterbuildafrica on “as is” and “as available”
basis without any representation or warranties, express or implied except otherwise specified in writing.
Without prejudice to the forgoing paragraph, Masterbuildafrica does not warrant that:
- a) This website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
- b) The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. Masterbuildafrica will
not be liable to you in any way or in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection
with, Masterbuildafrica website. Masterbuildafrica does not warrant that this site; information, content,
materials, product (including software) or services included on or otherwise made available to you
through Masterbuildafrica website; their servers; or electronic communication sent from
Masterbuildafrica are free of viruses or other harmful components.
2. Breach
Without limiting other remedies, Masterbuildafrica may limit your activity, immediately remove your
information, warn other Users of your actions, immediately temporarily/indefinitely suspend or terminate or
block your membership, and/or refuse to provide you with access to Masterbuildafrica website in the event,
but not limited
to:
- If you breach the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or other rules and policies, if any;
- If Masterbuildafrica is unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide; or
- If it is believed that your actions may cause legal liability for you, other Users or
Masterbuildafrica.
Masterbuildafrica may at any time at its sole discretion reinstate suspended Users. A User
that has been suspended or blocked may not register or attempt to register with Masterbuildafrica or use
Masterbuildafrica Website in any manner whatsoever until such time that such User is reinstated by
Masterbuildafrica. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you breach the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or other
ruler and policies, Masterbuildafrica reserves the right to recover any amounts due and owing by you to
Masterbuildafrica and to take strict legal action including but not limited to a referral to the appropriate police
or other authorities for initiating criminal or other proceedings against you.
3. Indemnity
You shall indemnify and hold harmless Masterbuildafrica its owner, licensee, affiliates, subsidiaries, group
companies (as applicable) and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or
demand, or actions including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or
arising out of your breach of this Terms of Use, privacy Policy and other Policies, or your violation of any law,
rules or regulations or the rights of a third party.
4. Applicable Law
This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of The Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
5. Trademark, Copyright and Restriction
This site is controlled and operated by Masterbuildafrica. All materials on this site, including images,
illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property
rights that are owned and controlled by us or by other parties that have licensed their material to us. Material
on Masterbuildafrica website owned, operated, licensed or controlled by us is solely for your personal,
noncommercial use.
You must not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute such material in any way,
including by e-mail or other electronic means and whether directly or indirectly and you must not assist any
other person to do so.
Without the prior written consent of the owner, modification of the materials, use of the materials on any other
web site or networked computer environment or use of the materials for any purpose other than personal,
noncommercial use is a violation of the copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights, and is prohibited.
Any use for which you receive any remuneration, whether in money or otherwise, is a commercial
use for the purposes of this clause.
6. Copyright complaint
We at Masterbuildafrica respect the intellectual property of others. In case you feel that your work has been
copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement you can write to us at [email protected]
7. Risk of loss
All Services / Products purchased from Masterbuildafrica are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This
means that the Risk of Loss shall remain with Masterbuildafrica until the item is transferred to You. In the
event that the items are damaged after receipt, the risk falls on the customer.
8. Services/Products Description
Masterbuildafrica tries to be as accurate as possible. However, Masterbuildafrica does not warrant that
Services/Products description or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.
9. Pricing/Typographical error
If Masterbuildafrica comes across any difference in pricing resulting from typographic errors with regards to
pricing or product information, Masterbuildafrica shall have the right to rectify the same or cancel the order(s)
and refund monies, if any, collected from the customer within 10-15 business days of such corrective action
taken. The mode of refund will be the same as at the time of placing the order. Cash on Delivery order refunds
will be done by cheque.
10. Our Contact
Please send any questions or comments (including all inquiries unrelated to copyright infringement) regarding
this Site to [email protected]