This document is an electronic record in terms of National Information Technology Development Agency Act, 2007 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, 2007. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
Your use of the website www.GROIT.com.ng.ng (hereinafter referred to as "GROIT.com.ng.") and tools are governed by the following terms and conditions as applicable to GROIT.com.ng. If you transact on GROIT.com.ng, you shall be subject to the policies that are applicable to the website for such transaction. By mere use of the website you shall be contracting with Friiz Consulting Limited RC: 1680605 a company incorporated under Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 with head office at 48 Mufutau Ope-Ifa Street, Oke-Odo, Lagos, Nigeria and these terms and conditions constitute your binding obligations.
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 Data while registering on the Website as a Registered User.
When you use any of the services provided by GROIT.com.ng, 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. GROIT.com.ng 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, GROIT Online Nigeria Limited 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
Use of the GROIT Website is available only to persons who can form legally binding contracts under Nigerian governing laws. If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you shall not register as a member of GROIT.com.ng and shall not transact or use GROIT.com.ng website. As a minor if you wish to use or transact on GROIT.com.ng, such use or transaction may be made by your legal guardian or parents who have registered as users of GROIT.com.ng reserves the right to terminate your membership and refuse to provide you with access to GROIT.com.ng if it is brought to GROIT Online Shopping Limited’s notice or if it is discovered that you are under the age of 18 years.
If you use GROIT.com.ng, 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 agree that if you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete that GROIT.com.ng has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with this Terms of Use, GROIT.com.ng has the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block access of your membership with GROIT.com.ng and refuse to provide you with access to the Website.
When You use the Website or send emails or other data, information or communication to GROIT.com.ng, You agree and understand that You are communicating with GROIT.com.ng through electronic records and You consent to receive communications via electronic records from GROIT.com.ng periodically. GROIT.com.ng may communicate with You by email or by such other mode of communication, electronic or otherwise.sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise.
Membership on GROIT.com.ng is free. GROIT.com.ng does not charge any fee for browsing and buying on GROIT.com.ng. However, GROIT.com.ng reserves the right to charge a fee and change its policies from time to time. In particular, GROIT.com.ng may at its sole discretion introduce new services and modify some or all of the existing services offered on GROIT.com.ng. In such an event GROIT.com.ng 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 GROIT.com.ng. Unless otherwise stated, all fees shall be quoted in Nigerian Naira. You shall be solely responsible for compliance of all applicable laws including those in Nigeria for making payments to GROIT.com.ng.
You agree, undertake and confirm that your use of GROIT.com.ng 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 do not have any right.
b. Is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, 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 (those 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 GROIT'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, GROIT. "prior written consent" means a communication coming from GROIT 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 GROIT, in its sole discretion, believes is or could be construed as being illegal;
p. Interferes with another user's use and enjoyment of GROIT.com.ng 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 GROIT, contains material that is inappropriate for the GROIT.com.ng 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;
u. Deceives or misleads the addressee/ users about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
v. Impersonate another person;
w. 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;
x. Threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, 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 other nation.
y. Shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading;
z. 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.
aa. Shall not create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers;
bb. 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. GROIT reserves the right to bar any such activity.
cc. You shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of GROIT.com.ng website, or any other systems or networks connected to GROIT.com.ng Website or to any GROIT server, computer, network, or to any of the services offered on or through GROIT.com.ng Website, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.
dd. You shall not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of GROIT website or any network connected to GROIT.com.ng website nor breach the security or authentication measures on GROIT.com.ng website or any network connected to the Website.
ee. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to GROIT.com.ng Website, or any other customer of GROIT.com.ng, including any GROIT.com.ng account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit GROIT.com.ng Website or any service or information made available or offered by or through GROIT.com.ng 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 GROIT.com.ng Website.
ff. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of GROIT.com.ng Website or GROIT’s systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to GROIT.com.ng.
gg. 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.;
hh. You may not forget headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to GROIT.com.ng 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.
ii. 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 GROIT.com.ng or others. Solely to enable GROIT.com.ng 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. GROIT.com.ng will only use Your Information in accordance with the terms of use and GROIT’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.
jj. You shall not exaggerate or over emphasize the attributes of such items or services so as to mislead other Users in any manner.
kk. You shall not lift (i.e. copy and paste) images of products you want to sell on GROIT.com.ng from other websites, images to be used must be original images and not stolen images or content posted on another site. And in the event that you violate this term, you hereby indemnify GROIT of any third-party claim thereon.
ll. You shall not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other users of GROIT.com.ng to buy or sell any products or services, including, but not limited to, products or services related being displayed on GROIT.com.ng or related to GROIT.com.ng. You may not transmit any chain letters or unsolicited commercial or junk email to other users via GROIT.com.ng. It shall be a violation of these Terms of Use to use any information obtained from GROIT.com.ng in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to another person outside of GROIT.com.ng without GROIT’s prior explicit consent. In order to protect our users from such advertising or solicitation, GROIT 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 GROIT deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
mm. You understand that GROIT has the right at all times to disclose any information (including the identity of the persons providing information or materials on the GROIT.com.ng Website) as necessary 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
GROIT reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the materials posted on GROIT.com.ng website. GROIT 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 GROIT.com.ng,
YOU REMAIN SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU POST ON THE GROIT.com.ng WEBSITE AND IN YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES.
Please be advised that such Content posted does not necessarily reflect the views of GROIT.com.ng. In no event shall GROIT 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 GROIT.com.ng. 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, tortious, or otherwise unlawful information.
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through GROIT.com.ng, including payment and delivery of related services or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. GROIT 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 GROIT.com.ng.
It is possible that other users (including unauthorized users or “hackers”) may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on GROIT.com.ng and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials. It is possible that other users (including unauthorized users or “hackers”) may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on GROIT.com.ng 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 GROIT.com.ng, and that the recipient may use such information to harass or injure you. GROIT does not approve of such unauthorized uses but by using the GROIT.com.ng Website you acknowledge and agree that GROIT will not be responsible for the use of any personal information that you publicly disclose or share with others on GROIT.com.ng. Carefully select the type of information that you publicly disclose or share with others on GROIT.com.ng.
GROIT 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 a group(s) of People, intentionally or unintentionally in DoS/DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services).
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 GROIT.com.ng is owned, controlled or licensed by or to GROIT Online Shopping Limited, 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 GROIT.com.ng 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 GROIT’s express prior written consent. You may use information on GROIT.com.ng products and services purposely made available by GROIT.com.ng for downloading from the site, provided that you
1. do 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 GROIT and you grant GROIT Online Shopping Limited the worldwide, perpetual and transferable rights in such Content. GROIT 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. You agree that any Content you post may be used by GROIT, 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.
GROIT does not take responsibility or liability for the actions, products, content and services on GROIT.com.ng website, which are linked to Affiliates and / or third party websites using GROIT.com.ng APIs or otherwise. In addition, GROIT.com.ng may provide links to the third party websites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses for which, GROIT assumes no responsibility for examining or evaluating the products and services offered by them, and GROIT does not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of such third party website(s). GROIT.com.ng does not in any way endorse any third party website(s) or content thereof.
GROIT.com.ng welcomes links to this site. You may establish a hypertext link to GROIT.com.ng website, provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by GROIT.com.ng. You must not use on your site or in any other manner any trademarks, service marks or any other materials appearing on GROIT.com.ng, including any logos or characters, without the express written consent of GROIT.com.ng 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 GROIT.com.ng website without GROIT’s prior written consent.