1. Introduction
THS Services Limited the operator of 247artisan.com, the online platform that provides artisans and tradesmen for building and house maintenance services in Nigeria ("territory").
These general terms and conditions shall apply to all clients and shall govern your use of our online platform and related services.
By proceeding to use the Platform, you warrant that you are eligible by reason of age to contract under applicable laws and you are authorized under law to own and/or maintain a building for residential or official purposes in any capacity allowing you to act in that behalf, the details of which you have provided on the Platform. If you are using or accessing the Platform as a representative of any person/entity, you acknowledge that you are legally authorized to represent such person/entity. You affirm that you are an eligible and competent as per the applicable laws to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms, and to abide by and comply with these Terms.
These Terms may be updated by us at any time and at our sole discretion. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for reviewing these Terms from time to time. Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms, any guideline, or any subsequent changes thereto or become unhappy with our Platform in any way, your only option is to immediately discontinue using the Platform.
If you request for any of our services on the platform, you will be asked to provide an email address and contact number.
2. Terms and Conditions of Service
You acknowledge and agree that:
- 247artisan.com provides an online location for artisans and tradesmen to provide building and house maintenance services.
- 247artisan.com will not be responsible for any services outside the service requested or contracted supported with quotation and evidence of payment to THS Services Limited via our online platform.
- An inspection fee of N5000.00 would be charged for areas on Lagos Mainland and N10, 000.00 on Lagos Island(after Third Mainland Bridge locations.
3. Refund Policy
We will refund Inspection Fee ONLY when given the opportunity to execute the request/services.
4. Payments
i. Payments made to THS Services Limited bank account will recognized and considered for services rendered
ii. No payment will be made for quotations and presentations.
5. Workmen supervision Policy
5.1 Whereas the company has artisans and workmen who are of impeccable character and of the highest level of integrity, it behooves on the Buyers of our building maintenance services to ensure a very close supervision of artisans when they are in their homes to render services.
5.2 On no account and in no circumstance will the company directly accept liability or be indirectly liable for any acts of clients which otherwise amount to contributory negligence by failing, refusing or neglecting to monitor and supervise artisans while at work in their places of domicile.
6. Workmen subsequent engagement policy
6.1 The company is responsible for and thus accepts liability resulting from the actions or inactions of artisans from 247artisans.com whose records are verified by the company.
6.2 Whereas the company has a very flexible disposition to the “restraints of trade” on artisans who disengage from the company, it however denies ANY liability resulting from the actions or inactions of artisans who are subsequently engaged by clients, outside the platform of 247artisans.com and without the consent of the company.
7. Use of Website and Mobile Applications
In this section 8 words "platform" and "website" shall be used interchangeably to refer to 247artisan.com websites and mobile applications.
You may view pages from our website in a web browser; download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; print pages from our website for your own personal and noncommercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;
You must not use 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; use of 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; hack or otherwise tamper with our website; probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
Circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website; use 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; conduct 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; access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing; use our website except by means of our public interfaces; violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
8. Trademark Information
247artisans.com, the 247artisans.com logo, and other 247artisans.com brand names and logos are trade-marks of the company. All other company names, brand names and logos used on 247artisans.com are the trademarks of their respective owners. You agree not to display or use in any manner any of the trade-marks without express written permission from 247artisans or the trade-mark owner.
9. Privacy Policy
We care about your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data that you provide. Please go through our privacy policy in order to understand how we handle your personal data.
10. Copyright Information
The Content on 247artisans is protected by various copyright laws. You agree not to reproduce, republish or redistribute any Content, including, but not limited to, caching, framing and similar means, without express written permission of the copyright owner. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please notify us immediately.
11. Limitations and Exclusions of Liability
Nothing in these general terms and conditions will:
limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or exclude any liabilities or statutory rights that may not be excluded under applicable law.
In respect of the services offered to you free of charge or without adhering to our instructions on usage and servicing/maintenance in case of equipment maintenance, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.
Our 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 and in a case a percentage of the services has been rendered, the liability shall not exceed the total amount of services not yet rendered.
In no event shall the company, its officers, directors, employees, or agents, be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages (even if company has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from any aspect of your use of the platform or the service, including without limitation whether the damages arise from use or misuse of the platform or the service, from inability to use the platform or the service, or the interruption, suspension, modification, alteration, or termination of the platform or the service. such limitation of liability shall also apply with respect to damages incurred by reason of other services or products received through in connection with the platform or the service or any links on the platform, as well as by reason of any information, opinions or advice received through or advertised in connection with the platform or the service or any links on the platform. These limitations shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law. Those who access or use the platform from other jurisdictions do so at their own volition and risk and are responsible for compliance with local law. We will not be liable to any service you request or contract or engage with our artisan, tradesmen or any of our officers without the prior knowledge of THS Services Limited.
12. Indemnification
You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against:
any 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 platform or any breach by you of any provision of these general terms and conditions or the THS Services Limited, policies or guidelines; and any VAT liability or other tax liability that we may incur in relation to any services made through our platform, 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.
13. Entire Agreement
These general terms and conditions and the 247artisan.com codes, policies and guidelines shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our platform and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our platform.
14. Severability
If 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.
If 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.
15. Third Party Rights
A 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. The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these general terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
16. Law and Jurisdiction
These general terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the territory.
Any disputes relating to these general terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the territory.
17. Our Company Details
247artisan.com is operated by THS Services Limited. We are registered in Nigeria under a Registration Number RC 1695441, and our Head Office is at 2, Ayinde Adeleye Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos.