PRIVACY POLICY:

Please read our privacy policy carefully to understand how we use personal information. If 'you' everyone accessing the website does not agree with our policy, your choice is not to use the website and browse any contents, applications, services and products covered by this policy. By accessing or using this site, you agree to this policy. Any changes we make on our policy will be posted on this site please check the policy periodically for any updates or changes. We are committed to protecting your privacy and security. All personal data that we collect from you will be processed in accordance with legal basis, security, and data protection.

Data Collection: When you use our site we register you, complete forms, and ask you to provide certain personal information including a valid email address, physical address or billing information, telephone number or contact details, other information, and so on; we collect the personal information directly provided by you. We also collect information about your communications with other users on the site. For eg, if 'any' user exchances data for 'any' reasons we may be informed for 'business' reasons and we will store this data securely.

Data Use:Where relevant under applicable laws, all processing of your personal information will be justified by a 'lawful grounds' for processing which will be justified on that basis:

• You have given your consent for us to use your personal information for any purpose of means which is related to serve you
• Our use of your personal information is necessary for the completion of the order placed or take steps to manage and serve you (eg, to serve you with services which you have ordered, details of businesses, etc.)
• We use your data to comply with relevant legal obligations or regulatory obligations related to fraud prevention etc.
• To support our legitimate interests as a business eg, to improve our services to you.
• To provide you with quality service and security, to perform our obligations to you and to develop and improve our services.
• To ensure marketplace integrity, prevent fraud and maintain safe and secure experience.
• To maintain appropriate business records, to comply with lawful requests by public authorities and to comply with applicable laws and regulations or as otherwise required by law.
• We always respect, promote, and expect moral and ethical values.

Data share:We under any circumstances do not share your personal information with a third party; unless to fulfil obligations imposed on us by applicable laws and regulations and prevent fraud, infringements, and illegal activities.

Data store:All your personal information you provided to us will be stored on our site securely.

Security:We take great care in maintaining the security of the site and your information in preventing unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction, and damage to it through technology and internal procedures. In addition, we contractually ensure that any third party (eg, card payment shopsite, paypal, etc) processing your personal information equally provides for confidentiality and integrity of your data in a secure way. However, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure, and although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the site; any transmission is at your own risk. You must immediately notify us upon becoming aware of any unauthorised access or any other security breach to the website. Your user account is yours only and you must not share your password with others. You are solely responsible for the security of your account and password. We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from unauthorized access to your account.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

'We' ' the website' cateringpal, are a single digital online platform.

'Buyers' are a User (customers) that purchases Sellers (Vendors) services or products or identifies a seller through the website. A User may be both a Buyer and a Seller under this agreement. 'Sellers' are vendors where they can provide products, services, etc to the customers.

Sellers' means a User that offers and provides services or identifies as a Seller through the website. A User may be both a Buyer and a Seller under this agreement. 'User', 'You' or 'Your 'means all individuals who visit or use the website.

Overview:By accessing the website, you agree to the following terms with cateringpal. We may amend this User Agreement and link information from time to time by posting amended terms on the website without informing you. Please be advised to read our updated version on our website.

The website is an online platform where users buy and sellers sell services and products. Buyers and sellers must register for an account in order to buy or sell. The website enables users to work together online, buy and sell products and services and to use the services that we provide. We are not a party to any contractual agreements between buyer and seller in the online platform, we merely facilitate connections between the parties.

We may, from time to time, and without notice, change or add to the website or the information, products or services described in it. However, we do not undertake to keep the website updated. We are not liable to you or anyone else if any error occurs in the information on the website or if that information is not current.

Using Website:While using the website, you will not attempt to or otherwise do any of the following:

• Post contents or products or services in inappropriate categories or areas on our website and services.
• Infringe any law, our policies.
• Fail to deliver payment for services and products delivered to you.
• Circumvent or manipulate our commissions, the billing process or fees owed to either party involved.
• Post false, inaccurate, misleading, deceptive, defamatory or offensive content (including personal information).
• Take any action (without our knowing) that may undermine the feedback or reputation systems such as displaying, importing, or exporting feedback information or using it for purposes unrelated to the website.
• Distribute or post spam, viruses or any other technologies that may harm the website or involved parties.
• Unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy, vulgar, obscene, profane or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to, or incite hatred of any person.
• Download and aggregate listings from our website for display from other websites without our written permission or otherwise incorporate any part of the website into any other website without our prior written authorization.
• Attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile, disassemble, or reverse any programs used by us in connection with the website.
• Harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses without their consent.

Promotion:We may display your company or business name, logos, images, or other media as part of the cateringpal services and/or other marketing materials relating to the website.

Content:When you give us content e.g. catering listings, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, legal right to exercise any and all copyright, trademark, publicity and database rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.

You acknowledge and agree that:

• (1) We act only as a forum for the online distribution and publication of user content. We make no warranty that user content is made available on the website. We have the right but not the obligation to take any action deemed appropriate by us with respect to your user content.

  (2) We have no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any content, whether the content was made available on the website.

  (3) Any and all content submitted to the website is subject to our approval. We may reject, approve or modify your user content at our sole discretion; you will have no obligation whatsoever.

  (4) You are solely responsible for the communication/interaction with the other users in the website.

The website contains external links to other third-party websites. We provide unmonitored access to third party content. We do not control the websites to which we link from the website. We do not endorse the content, product, services, practices, policies, or performances of those external link websites. Use of third-party content, links to third party content and or websites is at your risk.

Feedback and Reviews:You acknowledge that you transfer copyright of any feedback or reviews you leave consisting of comments, any ratings eg, communications together with any composite rating by us. You acknowledge that such feedback and reviews belong solely to us, notwithstanding that we permit you to use it on our website while you remain a user. You must not use, or deal with, such feedback, reputation, and reviews in any way inconsistent with our policies.

You may not ought to do anything that may undermine the integrity of our feedback system. We are entitled to suspend or terminate your account at any time if we, in our sole and absolute discretion, are concerned by any feedback about you, or your feedback rating, where we believe our feedback system may be subverted.

Our feedback ratings belong to us and may not be used for any purpose other than facilitating the provision of seller services via the website. You may not use your seller or buyer feedback in any real or virtual venue other than our website or its related entities with us.

Advertising:Unless otherwise agreed with us, you must not advertise an external product, item, services, or any other category on the website. We may display advertisements or promotions on the website. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any kind incurred by you as a result of the presence of such advertisements or promotions or any subsequent dealings with other parties. Furthermore, you acknowledge and agree that content of any advertisements or promotions may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other intellectual property or proprietary rights and laws.

Communication:Communications between the either party should be strictly maintained via us. Under no circumstances, you must only communicate with parties via the website.

Identity:You must at our request, provide copies of identification documents and other documentation to identify you as whole, if requested. Failure to do so, we reserve the right to close, suspend or limit access to the website.

User Services:Upon the customer submitting the services over the website, and the vendor's acceptance on the website, or the purchase of an item by a buyer from the seller, the buyer and seller will be deemed to have entered into a user contract under which the buyer agrees to purchase, and the seller agrees to deliver the seller product/services. You agree not to enter into any contractual provisions in conflict with the user agreement. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you comply with your obligations to other users. If you do not, you may become liable to that (other) user.

If any user breaches any obligation to you, you are solely responsible for enforcing any rights that you may have. For the avoidance of doubt, we have no responsibility for enforcing any rights under a user contract.

Funds:We reserve the right to collect any funds owed to us by any other legal means. You acknowledge and agree that:

Cancellations, bookings, orders and amends:

Products: full payment on order

Service: Full payment if order is within 7 days or less.

Booking fee 5% of total order plus £100 for early booking order.

Must pay the full order amount 3 days early of the event date.

Refund 50% of booking fee for cancelling before 7 days of the event date. If a user has multiple services and products on their order it applies as SERVICE for the user.

A customer will receive 100% reimbursement in any event of cancellation once the order is placed and that order is cancelled by the vendor. Once the vendor accepts an order, the vendor will have 48 hours to cancel the order. If cancellation is done by a supplier or vendor after 48 hours we will charge a 20% cancellation fee of total order from the vendor; in such supplier/vendor is accountable to find the alternative if the event is within 24 hrs.

If a customer wants to cancel an order after the order has been accepted by the vendor, they will have 48 hours to review and cancel the order. After 48 hours we will charge a 20% cancellation fee of the total order.

Cateringpal is not responsible for any cancellation that may occur due to any unforeseen events or acts that may prevent booking from going ahead. These events or acts may include but are not limited to war, riots, fires, floods, death, hurricanes, typhoons, epidemics, pandemics, earthquakes, lightning, explosions, strikes, lockdowns, lockout prolonged, shortage of energy supplies, any other natural disasters and acts of governmental action prohibiting or impeding any party from performing its respective obligations. We are under no obligation to provide a refund in these circumstances. We will instead try alternative arrangements after consulting both sellers and buyers.

Disputes:You acknowledge and agree that in the event that a dispute arises between you and another user in relation to any services that you will first attempt to resolve any differences that you have in relation to such service, including in relation to the quality of the services and products provided. If you continue to have any difficulties or problems in relation to a dispute with another user, we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible. Cateringpal will have full right and powers to decide for such a dispute. Upon receipt of a dispute, we shall have the right to request the seller and the buyer to provide more information or documentation in support of their claim in relation to the dispute. You agree that we have absolute discretion to accept or reject any information or document provided. You also acknowledge that we are not a judicial or alternative dispute resolution institution and that we will make the determinations only as an ordinary reasonable person. If a dispute arises between you and us, our goal is to address your concerns immediately and, if we are unable to do so to your satisfaction, to provide you with a means of resolving the dispute quickly. We strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution. You agree that you will not pursue any claims arising under this agreement by sole means or other representatives' means and will not seek to coordinate or consolidate any arbitration or action hereunder with any other proceeding. We reserve the right to change, amend and alter vendors terms and customer orders in the case of dispute.

Legal limitations:Your liability will be limited as far as legally possible under the applicable legislation. We may plead this user agreement in court to claim, action, proceeding or suit brought by you, against us for any matter arising out of any transaction or otherwise in respect of this user agreement.