ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) constitute a binding and enforceable legal agreement between soko.com.gh, its affiliates (collectively, “Administrator”, “we”, “us””i”) and you. Please read these terms carefully.

Your access to the soko.com.gh website and mobile applications and all services, content and data available through them (collectively, the “Service” or “Platform”) are governed by these Terms. If you do not agree to any part of these Terms, or if you do not have the authority or authority to comply with the Terms, do not access or use the Service. Also read our privacy policy. The terms of the Privacy Policy and any other additional terms, rules, regulations or documents that may be posted on the Platform from time to time are expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify these Terms at any time and for any reason, with or without notice.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

ALL SERVICES PROVIDED BY ADMINISTRATOR ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS”, AND ADMINISTRATOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED RESPONSIBILITY, LIABILITY, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ALL WARRANTIES AND LIABILITIES ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED.THE ADMINISTRATOR DOES NOT CHECK OR GUARANTEE THE AVAILABILITY, QUALITY, SECURITY OR LEGALITY OF GOODS AND SERVICES PUBLISHED BY USERS. RELIABILITY OR ACCURACY OF INFORMATION PROVIDED IN USERS; SELLERS’ ABILITY TO SELL GOODS OR PROVIDE SERVICES; THE BUYER’S ABILITY TO PAY FOR GOODS OR SERVICES; OR THAT THE USER ACTUALLY PERCEIVES THE EVENT. THE ADMINISTRATOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING THE MANUFACTURE, IMPORT, EXPORT, OFFER, DELIVERY, PURCHASE, SALE, ADVERTISING AND/OR USE OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED OR PROVIDED BY THE PARTIES. THEREFORE, THE ADMINISTRATOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY MATERIALS AND INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY USERS.IT IS RECOMMENDED TO CHECK THE GOODS BEFORE PAYING AND ASK THE SELLER FOR DOCUMENTATION CONFIRMING THE COMPLIANCE OF THE PRODUCTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF LAWS, REGULATIONS, REGULATIONS, REGULATIONS.YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SAFETY AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WILL ONLY MEET OTHER PEOPLE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT IN SAFE PUBLIC AREAS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PERSON OR ORGANIZATION YOU WISH TO MEET FOR A JOB INTERVIEW OR PROCEDURE. THE ADMINISTRATOR DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY COMMUNICATION OF THE USER WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION.

SELLER/BUYER ACCOUNT REGISTRATION

To use certain features of the Service, you may need to register an account (“Account”) with the Platform and provide certain information about yourself as requested by the registration form.You can create an account as an individual or as an authorized representative of a company.You can register only one account. If more than one person uses their account from the same device, we may ask that proof of identity be submitted to avoid duplicate accounts.

You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for securing and maintaining the confidentiality of your account access information and are fully responsible for all actions taken using your account access information.

You represent to us that you are of age or are using the Service under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. All users who are minors (generally under the age of 18) in their jurisdiction of residence must obtain the permission and direct supervision of their parent or guardian to use the Service. If you are a minor, you must ask your parent or guardian to read and agree to these terms before using the Service.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account or access to the Service with or without notice to you if you violate these Terms.

You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized or suspected unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with the above requirements.

SERVICES

The Platform is an online service that allows users to create and post advertisements, view advertisements posted by other users, and communicate with other users using contact information provided in advertisements. The Administrator himself is not an importer, manufacturer, distributor or seller of goods or service providers published on the Platform by Users. In addition, the Administrator is not a person who acts on behalf of the Buyers or Users in relation to the sale of goods or services published on the Platform. Sales and service contracts are determined directly between users and the operator itself is not a party to these transactions. Administrators provide opportunities for users to communicate.

Users shall be solely responsible to collect and remit any applicable taxes resulting from the sale of their goods or services posted on the Platform. The Administrator reserves a right to delete or block access to announcements posted by users without any notice in the event of: (i) receiving of mandatory judgments of competent public authorities; (ii) claim of a holder of intellectual property rights to terminate infringement of his/her rights by a user on the Platform; (iii) infringements of rights or legal interests of other users, legal entities, or individuals upon their reasonable request; (iv) detecting that announcement posted by user on the Platform breaches these Terms or any applicable law, regulation, rule or standard. The Administrator is authorized to delete or block announcements of users regardless of providing a user with the relevant substantiation. The Administrator retains the right to implement any changes to the Service (whether to free or paid features) at any time, with or without notice. You acknowledge that a variety of Administrator’s actions may impair or prevent you from accessing the Service at certain times and/or in the same way, for limited periods or permanently, and agree that the Administrator has no responsibility or liability as a result of any such actions or results, including, without limitation, for the deletion of, or failure to make available to you, any content or services. Each user of the Service is solely responsible for all of their own User Content (defined below). Because we do not control User Content, you agree that we are not responsible for User Content, do not guarantee the accuracy, currency, correctness or quality of User Content, and without liability to you, I accept this. content Your interactions with other users of the Service are solely between you and that user. You agree that the administrator will not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from such interactions. If there is a dispute between you and another user of the Service, you are not obligated to intervene.

The Services may contain links to third-party websites, resources, and third-party advertisements (collectively, “Third Party Posts”). These third-party advertisements are not under the control of the administrator, and the administrator is not responsible for third-party advertisements. The administrator provides these third-party advertisements as a convenience and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, guarantee or represent any third-party advertisement. Advertisements and other information provided by the Internet sites to which the third-party links are linked may not be entirely accurate. You agree and assume full responsibility for any damages that may arise from the use of such online materials. When you connect to a third-party Internet site, you are subject to the service provider’s terms and policies, including the privacy and data collection practices. You should conduct such investigations as you deem necessary or appropriate before entering into any transaction with third parties. Your actions and other actions and advertisements of third parties appearing on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of any related goods or services, are solely between you and such third party.

You hereby indemnify us, our officers, employees, agents and successors from all damages, injuries, claims and actions of any kind, including but not limited to personal injury, illness or worse, right or wrong. . Indirect links or results of your interactions and actions with users of the Service or with third-party advertisers.

Posting by the User

At the request of the administrator, the user must provide the administrator with documents confirming the correctness of the post and identity documents. Users who publish advertisements for the sale of goods or services on the Platform must provide accurate and complete information about the goods and services in question, as well as the terms and conditions of sale and provision of the service.

User developed terms of sale and provision of services shall not interfere with these terms and conditions and applicable laws. The price of the product or service must be reasonable. If we decide there will be a change due to special circumstances, we will notify you in writing.

By submitting a YouTube video to your advertisement through the YouTube API service functions provided by the administrator, you agree to follow the YouTube Terms of Service, available at https://www.youtube .com/t/terms.

USER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

By using the Service, you represent and warrant that: You have a legal capacity and you agree to comply with the Terms;If you register yourself as a representative of a legal entity, you are authorized by the company to enter into agreement with us and with users of the Platform;

You are above 18 years of age;You will or have provided true, accurate, and complete information in your Account;

You will update your information on your Account to maintain its truthfulness, accuracy, and completeness;

You will immediately change data for accessing to the Platform, if you have a suspicion that your Account access details were disclosed or probably used by the third parties;

You will notify the Administrator of any unauthorized access to your Account;

You will not provide any false or misleading information about your identity or location in your Account;

You will use the Service in strict abidance by applicable laws, regulations, rules, guidelines;

You will not use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;

You will not post on the Platform announcements that offer for sale or exchange any Prohibited Items (https://soko.com.gh/faq/ ).You will not post on the Platform announcements that infringe other person’s rights or interests, including any intellectual property rights or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party.

You will not post on the Platform announcements that include:

  • false, misleading or deceptive statements;
  • personal or identifying information about minors or other persons without proper consent;
  • pornographic, overtly sexual materials;
  • depictions that encourage illegal or reckless use of weapons and dangerous objects, or facilitate the purchase of firearms or ammunition;
  • defamatory, discriminatory, mean-spirited, threatening or harassing, improper, unacceptable materials, vulgar or abusive language;
  • advocacy of hate, violence, discrimination, racism, xenophobia, ethnic conflicts;
  • appeals to violence and unlawful actions;
  • offers of prostitution or other services contradicting moral or legal norms;
  • services, provision of which is prohibited by the applicable law;
  • information of solely promotional nature with no offers of specific goods or services;
  • counterfeit and imitated goods or unauthorized copies. Unauthorized copies include also goods having been acquired by illegal means, pirated or stolen; and
  • direct or indirect references to any other websites, references or information about websites competing with the Platform;

You will not use the Software or perform any other activity that is intended to interfere with the proper functioning of the site.

You may not promote or distribute commercial emails, chain letters or Ponzi schemes through the Platform or by any other means to other users of the Platform.

You may not copy, modify or distribute another user’s content without their consent.

You will not violate the personal information of others by collecting information about users, such as email addresses and phone numbers, without their consent or by collecting it in any other way.

You must not download, store, transmit, distribute, provide access to or use any worm, virus, trojan or other malicious program.You own the legal rights to the goods offered for sale in your ad.

You have the necessary licenses or authorizations to offer for sale, advertise and distribute the products described in your advertisement in accordance with applicable laws.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrator, its successors, subsidiaries, affiliates, related companies, suppliers, licensors, partners, officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives from claims and all harm. Claims, including attorneys’ fees and costs, by third parties arising out of or arising out of:

(i) your use of the Platform;

(ii) your User Content;

(iii) your breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or obligation set forth in these Terms;

(iv) violates any applicable laws, industry rules, laws, guidelines or regulations;

(v) any transaction made by you through the Platform or any transaction that violates any applicable Transaction Law; The Administrator reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the defense and control of any material it needs to pay us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claim.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

WE (NOR OUR AFFILIATES) WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR LOST OR NON-PROFIT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY PENALTIES ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF THESE TERMS. We are not responsible. OR YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIRD PARTY SERVICES OR ADVERTISING EVEN IF THEY ARE USED TO USE THE PROCEDURE. Your access to and use of the Services and Third Party Ads is at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system and any resulting loss of data.

NOTE CONTENT TO THE CONTRARY, YOU AGREE THAT OPERATOR’S ENTIRE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY ADVERTISING SHALL BE THE LESSER OF THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU. If applicable, send us the GHS700 within EIGHT months before the event.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

The information you provide to us during registration and any information, text, images and other materials you may post or transmit to the Platform (“User Content”) remains your intellectual property and the Administrator does not claim any ownership rights. in such registration information and copyright or other intellectual property rights related to User Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you agree that Administrator may retain copies of all Registration Information and User Content and use such information and User Content as reasonably necessary or incidental to the operation of the Service as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy. .You grant Administrator a non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, modify, adapt, store, publish, distribute, publicly display and perform, transmit and publicly make available any User Content in connection with the Service, including the use of User Content and publication on the Linked Site and for the marketing, advertising and other purposes of the Administrator.

You agree and warrant that your use of the Service or any part thereof will not infringe or violate the rights of any other party or violate any contract or legal obligation owed to any other party.

Material on the Platform, other than User Posted Material, including but not limited to text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features, etc. (“Materials”) and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein (“Marks”) are owned by or licensed to Administrator and represent copyright and other intellectual property rights. Use of such materials and trademarks without notice from the system administrator is not permitted.

Notification of violations of intellectual property rights and copyrights.

If you are an owner of intellectual property rights or a person authorized to act on behalf of an owner of intellectual property rights and you reasonably believe that the information published on the platform infringes somehow your intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of a person on whose behalf you are acting, you may notify the system administrator requesting the removal of such material. In this regard, you must ensure that your complaint has a legal basis and that you act in good faith in accordance with the law.

If you are the owner of intellectual property rights or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of intellectual property rights and you reasonably believe that any information submitted to the Platform infringes your intellectual property rights or intellectual property rights in any way. the person on whose behalf you are acting, you may notify a system administrator to request that such material be removed. In this regard, you must ensure that your complaint has a legal basis and that you act in good faith in accordance with the law.

When submitting a proper notice of infringement, please ensure that your request conforms to the form below and includes the following information:

The complaint must include a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder. a right that is believed to have been violated;

The objects of intellectual property rights, whose rights are allegedly infringed, must be specified. If there are multiple items, a complete list must be provided;

you must identify the material (by reference to specific URL pages) that is claimed to be infringing or is itself infringing; \you must provide contact information so that the administrator can contact you, such as an address, telephone number and email address; a signed statement of your good faith and reasonable belief that the infringing material complained of is being used without the consent of the copyright owner or its agent and is not permitted by law; a signed statement that the owner of intellectual property releases the administrator from any third-party claims related to the administrator’s removal of said materials; a signed statement that the information contained in the notice is true under penalty of perjury and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;any legal provisions that you believe have been violated by the use of the disputed content;the state in which you believe the rights have been violated;

As attachments to your complaint, copies of documents confirming the rights to the security belonging to the intellectual property right, as well as a document confirming the authority to act on behalf of the owner.

Related notification should be sent via email to support@soko.com.gh

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ghana. The Ghana Arbitration Center shall, in accordance with its rules, arbitrate any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its breach, termination or invalidity. The English language is used in arbitration.

OTHER PROVISIONS

Unless otherwise provided, if any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, such provision shall be severed and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. We may assign and transfer all of our rights and obligations under these Terms to any other person in any way, including by modification, and by agreeing to these Terms, you consent to such assignment or assignment to us.

If we do not act with respect to your violation of these Terms, we still have the right to exercise our rights and remedies in any other situation where you violate these Terms. In no event shall the Administrator be liable for any failure to comply with these Terms due to factors beyond the Administrator’s reasonable control.

CONTACT US

If you wish to submit a notice under these Terms or have any questions about the Service, you may contact us at: support@soko.com.gh .Last updated: May 3, 2024.