Your User Agreement Welcome to the User Agreement for idoddle.com ("User Agreement"). The services available at www.idoddle.com are provided by idoddle.com Ltd. ("idoddle.com", "we", "us" or "our"). at First Floor, Clyde Mill, Stewart Street, Bolton, BL1 3PA. This User Agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and sub-domains at http://www.idoddle.com (the "Site"). If you do not agree to be bound by this User Agreement, you may not use or access our services. You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this User Agreement, which includes those terms and conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by reference, before you may become a user of the Site. We strongly recommend that, as you read this User Agreement, you also access and read the information contained in the other pages and websites referred to in this document, as they contain further terms and conditions which apply to you as an idoddle.com user. Please note: underlined words and phrases are click-through links to these pages and websites. By agreeing to this User Agreement, you also agree that your use of other idoddle web sites will be governed by the user agreement posted on those other web sites. If you have any questions about this User Agreement, please refer to our User Agreement Frequently Asked Questions. We may amend this User Agreement at any time by giving you notice ("Notice") by either e-mail in accordance with your Announcements or by posting the amended User Agreement on the Site. Any amended User Agreement will govern new user registrations from the date that it is posted on the Site. Existing users will be bound by the amended User Agreement after the expiry of 30 days following the date of a Notice. No other amendment to this User Agreement will be effective. Please note that different notice provisions apply to our Fees and Credits Policy as set out in section 6 below. This User Agreement will be effective from 1st June 2005 for new registering users on www.idoddle.com. Membership Eligibility. Our services are not available to, and may not be used by, persons under the age of 18 years or anyone who may be suspended from idoddle.com. If you are under 18 years old, you can use this service only in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or guardian. User ID. You must choose a User ID and password on completion of registration. You are responsible for all and any actions undertaken by that User ID and password and shall only use or utilise the Site using your own User ID and password. You must use every effort to keep your password safe and should not disclose it to any other person. You shall not transfer or sell your User ID to any other person. You shall also not permit, either directly or indirectly, any other person to utilise your User ID or password. idoddle.com is Only a Gateway between Buyers and Sellers . We do not review listings provided by users, we never possess the items offered through the Site and we are not involved in transactions between buyers and sellers. As a result, we have no control over the quality, safety or legality of any of the items listed the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. Do not assume that the offer, sale, purchase, export or import of any item is valid and legal simply because it is listed on the Site. We are not responsible for ensuring that buyers and sellers actually complete a transaction. You accept sole responsibility for the legality of your actions under laws applying to you. 3.2 Restricted Items. You must not offer, sell, or buy any items which idoddle.com do not permit or allow on the Site, these are described in the list of Prohibited or Conditions Apply list. We do not accept any obligation or any responsibility to protect you from unsafe items listed for sale on our Site. Please do not assume that items listed will be harmless to people or property. 3.3 Identity verification. We use many techniques to verify the accuracy of the information our users provide to us when they register on the Site. However, because user verification on the Internet is difficult, idoddle.com cannot and does not confirm the reported identity of users or the validity of the information which users post to the Site. Our User ID feedback rating system will also help you to evaluate the user with whom you are dealing. We encourage you to communicate with potential trading partners using the feedback option available on the Site. 3.4 Feedback. You must not take any actions that may undermine the integrity of the feedback system. We may limit the number of bids and listings you may place on the Site and your other activities on the Site based upon the level of your feedback. If you earn a net feedback rating of -5, your right to use our services will be suspended, and you will be unable to list or bid. Feedback ratings are not designed for any purpose other than for facilitating trading between idoddle.com users, and you agree that you shall not market or export your idoddle.com feedback rating in any venue other than on the idoddle.com website. We do not allow you to import feedback from other websites to idoddle because that feedback does not reflect or clarify the status of your reputation within the idoddle network. 3.5 Liability. In the event that you have any right, claim or action against any other user arising from that user's use of the Site, you agree to pursue such right, claim or action independently of and without recourse to us, and you release idoddle (or from any subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees) from all claims, liability, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including legal fees, known and unknown, arising from or in any way connected with such right, claim or action. 3.6 Information Control. We do not control the information provided by other users which is made available through the Site. You may find other user's information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution, common sense, and practice safe trading when using the Site. Please note that there are also risks of dealing with underage persons or people acting under false pretences. By using this Site, you agree to accept such risks and agree that idoddle is not responsible for the acts or omissions of users on the Site. Buying. As a buyer, you have a legal obligation to complete a transaction with a seller: a. If you purchase an item through the fixed price which is asked, or if a new price has been negotiated between the buyer and the seller. b. If you are the person placing an offer and that offer being accepted by the seller (offer and acceptance) c. By offering on an item and the offer being accepted you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale included in the item's description provided that those conditions of sale are not in breach of this User Agreement or otherwise unlawful. Offers are only retractable in exceptional circumstances, such as when the seller materially changes the item's description after an offer is placed, a clear typographical error is made, or you cannot authenticate the seller's identity. Please refer to our Sale withdrawal policy for further clarification. As buyer, you must ensure that you are legally able to buy any item that you put an offer in for. Listing and Selling. 5.1 Listing Description. If you are a seller, you must ensure that you are legally able to sell each item included in a listing on the Site, and that it is lawful to sell such item to UK residents or (if the buyer is resident overseas) that it is lawful to sell and export such item to a person resident in the buyer's jurisdiction. You must describe your item and all terms of sale on the listing page of the Site. Your listings may only include text descriptions, graphics, pictures and other content relevant to the sale of that item and you are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to use all content in your listings and we have the right to host it on our servers. All items must be listed in an appropriate category. 5.2 No Cancellation. You acknowledge that we will commence supplying our services to you as soon as you have sent a "Sell" form to us, and you recognise that you will not have the right to cancel any listing under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 or any equivalent legislation in your jurisdiction. 5.3 Fraud Without limiting any other remedies, we may suspend or terminate your account if we suspect that you have engaged or are about to engage in, or have been in any way involved in or linked to, fraudulent activity in connection with the Site. 5.4 Verifying A Person(s). We are not responsible for verifying a seller's right to list and sell items. idoddle.com will attempt to ensure that listed items or the content of listings do not infringe any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of third parties. Third parties can notify us in the event that they believe their intellectual property rights to have been infringed, and we may remove such infringing items and/or suspend infringing sellers. Please note that selected personal information which you provide to us may be made available when verifying participants as described in our Privacy Policy. 5.5 Manipulation. You must not manipulate the price of any item or interfere with other user's listing(s). Without limitation, you must not: (a) offer in a listing where you are the seller, or procure or encourage any person to do so on your behalf; (b) contact anyone that places an offer in a listing where items are listed for sale in order to offer similar items to any person making an offer in that listing; or (c) make offers or make any payment using a false User ID. Fees. Joining idoddle is free, although you will remain responsible for the costs of accessing our Site and communicating with our users. We charge fees for listing items for sale through our Site and when you list an item you have an opportunity to review and accept the fees that you will be charged. Our fees are described in our Listing price list which forms part of this User Agreement. We may change this policy at any time, and any change will be effective after the expiry of 14 days following the date of posting on the announcements link on the Site (or such later date as we may notify). However, we may choose to temporarily change our Fees and Credits Policy and the fees for our services for promotional events (for example, free listing days) and such changes are effective when we announce the temporary promotional event on the Site. For the avoidance of doubt, such promotional events shall not apply to any listings on our Site at the time of the announcement. We may in our sole discretion change some or all of our services at any time. In the event we introduce a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are payable in GB Pounds sterling. Whether you are a business or not, value added tax and other taxes may apply to your transaction. Sellers will be responsible for paying all fees associated with using our service and our Site and all applicable taxes. You agree that we may issue you with invoices in electronic format by email. You also agree that if in case you are unhappy about any fees, announcements or changes on the idoddle.com site, you clearly understand that no refund will be given on listings of past, present and future. Your Information. 7.1 Definition "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to us or other users using the idoddle.com service including the registration, selling, offering, listing or feedback process (including, without limitation, any description of items listed), You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a mere conduit for your online distribution and publication of Your Information. 7.2 Restrictions Your Information and your activities on our Site must not: a. be false, inaccurate or misleading; b. be offensive or menacing, abusive, defamatory, or in breach of copyright, confidence, privacy or any other rights; c. infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; d. be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; e. be in breach of any applicable laws or regulations (including, but not limited to, laws governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination, false advertising); f. be obscene, indecent or contain child pornography; g. create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers; h. you do not have a right to link to or include contain any computer viruses, macro viruses, trojan horses, worms or anything else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of a computer or to intercept, access without authority any system, data or personal information; i. cause the Site to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or such that the effectiveness or functionality of the Site is in any way impaired. You must not list any item on the Site (or complete any transaction initiated using the Site) that, by paying to us the listing fee or the final value fee, could cause us to violate any applicable law or our Prohibited or Conditions Apply terms and conditions. 7.3 Licence To enable idoddle.com to use Your Information, you grant us a non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to exercise the copyright, trade mark, publicity, and database rights you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known. You also waive all moral rights you have in Your Information to the fullest extent permitted by law. 7.4 Access and Interference. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of idoddle.com and the appropriate third party, as applicable; (iii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or (iv) bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site. We do not authorise you to extract or re-utilise substantial parts of our Site, or to make systematic and repeated extractions or re-utilisations of insubstantial parts of our Site. 7.5 Your Use of Other Users' Information. In order to facilitate interaction among all idoddle.com users, our service allows you limited access to other users' contact information. As a seller you have access to the User ID, email address and other contact information of the buyer, and as a buyer you have access to the User ID, email address and other contact information of the seller. By accepting this User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other users' personal information that you obtain through the Site or through any idoddle.com related communication or idoddle.com transaction, you may only use such information for: (a) idoddle.com related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages and relate to your true participation in an idoddle.com transaction, (b) using the services offered through idoodle.com and (c) any other purpose that such user expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In addition, you shall only use such information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation data protection and privacy laws. In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personal information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure. Note that law enforcement personnel, and other rights holders are given different rights with respect to information they access. idoddle.com and our users do not tolerate spam or unsolicited commercial communications. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you shall not add an idoddle.com user, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam from other idoddle.com users, please idoddle.com security. Breach. Without limiting our other remedies, we may limit your activity on the Site, immediately issue a warning, suspend or terminate your user registration or any of your item listings and refuse to provide our services to you without notice to you: (a) if you breach this User Agreement or the documents incorporated by reference; (b) if, despite our reasonable endeavours, we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or (c) if we believe that your actions may cause us financial loss or legal liability to any party. Transfer of Data We view protection of users' privacy as a very important principle. Please note that Your Information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United Kingdom. idoddle.com will hold and transmit Your Information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not register. No Warranty. We (and our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees) do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and operation of the Site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Our website and our services are provided "as is" and as and when available, and to the extent permissible by law we exclude all implied warranties, conditions or other terms, whether implied by statute or otherwise, including without limitation any terms as to skill and care or timeliness of performance. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. By agreeing to these terms and conditions you agree to understand the above and understand that idoddle.com will not issue a refund on my listing if it was affected in anyway. Limitation of Liability. Nothing in this User Agreement shall limit or exclude our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our, agents or employees. Subject to the foregoing, we (including our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees) will not be liable for any economic losses (including, without limitation, loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings), any loss of goodwill or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential damages (however arising, including negligence) arising out of or in connection with this User Agreement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. We (including our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees) also have no liability of any sort (including liability for negligence) for the acts or omissions of other providers of telecommunications services or for faults in or failures of their networks and equipment. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold idoddle.com and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this User Agreement (including the documents incorporated by reference), or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. Notices. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, notices to idoddle.com must be sent by registered mail to idoddle.com, 1st Floor, Clyde Mill, Bolton BL1 3PA, and the notices related to you will be sent to the email address that you provide to idoddle.com during the registration procedure (receipt is acknowledged as 72 hours after an email is sent, unless we receive notice that the email address is invalid), or by registered mail. Governing Law and Legal Compliance. This User Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. Please note, that your country (and/or that of any user you deal with) may have laws which apply to your transactions with other users regardless of what you agree with us (now) or with that user (later). The laws of your country may be different from English law, including laws governing what can be legally offered, sold, exported, bought or imported. There may be additional legal requirements, relating to (for example) the requirement to hold a licence to buy or sell certain items, or to register a transfer in a central registry. You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service and your bidding on, listing, purchase and solicitation of offers to purchase and sale of items. There is no practical way for us to continually monitor the laws of every country, or each user transaction. Please do not assume that you are allowed to do what other users do, or that we are approving or validating any transaction, even if you have successfully made similar sales or purchases in the past. Dispute Resolution. Disputes between you and idoddle.com regarding our services may be reported to idoddle.com Customer Care. We encourage you to report all disputes between users to your local law enforcement body. Third Party Rights. A person who is not a party to this User Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this User Agreement but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party specified in this User Agreement or which exists or is available apart from that Act. General. If any provision of this User Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out and the remaining provisions shall be enforceable. You agree that this User Agreement and all incorporated agreements may be automatically assigned by idoddle.com, in our sole discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition by another party or any other event. You and idoddle.com are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this User Agreement. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. This User Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to its subject matter. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the interpretation of this User Agreement. This Agreement will prevail over any conditions of sale imposed by a seller and our Terms of use Prohibited and Conditions Apply are incorporated in this User Agreement by reference. Each of the policies may be amended from time to time and material changes will be posted on the Announcement Link except for the Privacy Policy for which we will provide you with thirty days notice. Sections 6 (Fees), 7 (Your Information), 11 (Limitation of Liability), 12 (Indemnity), 14 (Governing Law), 15 (Dispute Resolution) and 16 (Third Party Rights) shall survive any termination of this User Agreement.