Term of usage

Term Of UseWelcome to OpenSooq.com “OpenSooq”! OpenSooq.com is a leading classifieds portal that offers sellers the opportunity to advertise and post their products and services under a large number of categories and sub-categories, and the opportunity for buyers to browse, search for, and contact sellers to buy the listed products or services.  These Terms of Use sets forth the agreement between you and OpenSooq.com Ltd. It governs your use of the products and services we offer through our website and applications (collectively the "Site" or "OpenSooq Platform").   This agreement provides important information to you, including information about your obligations about your content, our limitation of liability to you, and your agreement to resolve any disputes by individual arbitration and to waive the right to participate in a class action. By accessing OpenSooq you are agreeing to the following terms.

 

  OpenSooq may provide a translation of the English version of the Terms into other languages. Any translation of the Terms into other languages is for your convenience only and the English version governs the terms of your relationship with OpenSooq. Furthermore, if there are any inconsistencies between the English version of the Terms and any translation, the English version of the Terms shall prevail. Your Account. In order to access and use some or a portion of the Services, you may be required to register with us and set up an account with your email address and a password (your “Account”). The email address you provide will be your email address, and you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. Therefore, you should protect your password and make your password difficult for others to guess.

 

We advise users to use their first and last names in their usernames. Don’t use any username that is similar to “OpenSooq”, “OpenSooq.com” or “السوق المفتوح”. You may connect to the Services with a third-party service (e.g., Facebook) and you give us permission to access, store, and use your information from that service as permitted by that service and as may be described in our Privacy Policy. If you believe your Account may have been compromised or misused, contact us immediately at OpenSooq Customer Support. Using OpenSooq. You will post in the appropriate category or area and will not do any of the following bad things:   violate any laws or our Prohibited Content Policy; be false or misleading; infringe any third-party right; distribute or contain spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes; distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm OpenSooq or the interests or property of O

penSooq users; impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of OpenSooq; copy, modify, or distribute any other person's content; use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access OpenSooq and collect content for any purpose without our express written permission; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent; bypass measures used to prevent or restrict access to OpenSooq. include personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent; Prohibited content. Any post that contains one or more of the below prohibited content will be deleted, and OpenSooq reserves the right to permanently delete the user account, blacklisting the account, and/or reporting the content and the user information to Law Enforcement or the appropriate Authority.  

lcoholic Beverages, Liquor, tobacco products, drugs, psychotropic substances, narcotics, intoxicants of any description, medicines, palliative/curative substances nor shall you provide link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of items, goods or services that are prohibited under any applicable law Living, dead person and/or the whole or any part of any human which has been kept or preserved by any means whether artificial or natural including any blood, bodily fluids and/ or body parts Prostitution or any other service in the nature there of that purports to violate the provisions of Immoral Act or Indecent representation of women which violates the contemporary standards of morality and decency in the Arab society. Religious items, including books, artifacts, etc. or any information, description of any such item that is likely to affect the religious sentiments of any person or group Offensive

Material intended for use in a sexual setting (including "bondage" and "fetish" items,) displaying sexual activity or portraying human genitalia in a "life-like" or realistic fashion "Antiquities" and "Art Treasures" not authorized for sale or trading under any applicable law Information or items that are defamatory, libelous, threatening or abusive in nature Information that is fraudulent, misrepresenting as to the nature and use of the goods or the services. Counterfeit, Pirated and stolen goods or unauthorized illegal services (services for which you are not licensed or permitted to do or do not have the authority to under take). Items, goods and services that infringe or attempt to pass

ff any third parties intellectual property or rights of publicity or moral rights and or purport's to breach any persons right to privacy. Electronically transmitting through any medium computer viruses of any type or any computer program that facilitates hacking of a computer system which the intent to damage a computer or computer network or intercept any personal data. Your information shall not include any hate content, that is derogatory or slanderous in nature that may directed to any individual or group or advocate violence against any users individuals and or animals. Hazardous chemicals and pesticides Fireworks, Destructive Devices and Explosives including any material that enables the making of fireworks, explosive triggers and explosive devices. Identity Documents, Personal Financial Records & Personal Information (in any form, including mailing lists) Lottery Tickets,

Sweepstakes Entries and Slot Machines Military or Police Badges, Uniforms, coats-of-arms and or any Government emblems, insignia, and/ or items related to military or police that are not authorized for sale or trading under any applicable law Weapons and related items (such as firearms, firearm parts and magazines, ammunition, tear gas, stun guns or switchblade knives "Pyramid schemes" and "Multilevel Marketing" and/ or similar scams which are solely listed for the purpose of defrauding users. Classified video games posts +18 like (GTA , God of War....etc)  Spam, abusive, duplicate, listing, fraud schemes (e.g. "Get rich quick" "work at homes" scams which are solely listed for the purpose of duping users) Inappropriate, Wrong Category (e.g dining table listed as office furniture). Endangered animal species or animals advertised for fighting or offensive purposes Loans, funding services, & financing companies Abusing OpenSooq. Please use the flagging system to tell us about any problems or offensive content so that together we can keep the Services site working properly. We may limit or terminate our Services, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep users off OpenSooq if we think that they are creating problems or acting inconsistently

with the letter or spirit of our policies. However, whether we decide to take any of these steps, remove hosted content or keep a user off OpenSooq or not, we do not accept any liability for monitoring OpenSooq or for unauthorized or unlawful content on OpenSooq or use of OpenSooq by users. The below practices are considered prohibited on OpenSooq; Creating multiple accounts Posting duplicate content Posting content with misleading titles, content, or images Posting content with inappropriate images Posting content under wrong categories Posting content with unrealistic prices Posting content with links redirecting to other websites Uploading images that contain names, phone numbers or contact information Posting content with prepayment or bank transfer options Posting generic content Posting multiple items in one post Posting wearable items without uploading images Posting scam or fake content   Content. OpenSooq contains stuff from us, you, and other users. You agree not to copy, modify, or distribute OpenSooq, our copyrights or trademarks. When you give us content, you are granting us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights to that content. If you believe that your rights have been violated, please notify us at OpenSooq Customer Support and we will investigate the matter. We reserve the right to remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these terms

or the rights of any other party.   Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements. Do not post content that infringes the rights of third parties. This includes, but is not limited to, content that infringes on intellectual property rights such as copyright and trademark (e.g. offering counterfeit items for sale). We reserve the right to remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these terms, our policies or of any party's rights. If you have a good faith belief that a listing on any of the OpenSooq infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, all you need to do is notify us at OpenSooq Customer Support. Only the intellectual property rights owner can report of potentially infringing items or listings.   Fees and Services. Using OpenSooq is generally free. We may charge fees for certain Services. If the service you use charges a fee, you will be able

to review and accept that charge. Our fees are quoted in Local Currencies or American Dollars, and we may change them from time to time. We will notify you of changes to our fee policy by posting such changes on the site. We may choose to temporarily change our fees for promotional events or new services; these changes are effective when we announce the promotional event or new service. Our fees are non-refundable, and you are responsible for paying them when they're due. If you don't, we may limit your ability to use the Services.