Terms of Service

This document is an electronic record under Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes under applicable Indian laws. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

This document is published and shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and user agreement for access or usage of www.storieshomes.com website.

User Agreement

Your use of www.storieshomes.com and all the web pages, hyper-links, tools and services provided there under (hereinafter referred to as "the Website" which expression shall include and successor or replacement website) is governed by the following terms and conditions as applicable to the Website ("User Agreement"). This User Agreement shall come into effect upon your every visit.

For the purpose of the User Agreement, Registered User / Visitor and wherever the context so requires 'You' shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to become a member of the Website by providing Registration Data (as defined hereinafter) while registering on the Website as Registered User using the computer systems of the Website or who has used the Website without becoming a Registered User, and, in both the cases, accepted this electronic version / electronic record of the User Agreement. A Registered User has allocated himself a unique identification user name ("User ID" and "Password") to become a Registered User. The term and expression “You” shall, unless the context otherwise requires shall and include your legal heir, receivers, successors, liquidators and permitted assigns.

As a Registered User, this User Agreement shall be effective and binding upon your 'register', Your User ID and Password.

Amendments to the User Agreement: The Platform may amend this User Agreement at any time by posting a revised version on the Website. The revised version will be effective at the time the Platform posts it on the Website. You are advised to regularly check for any amendments or updates to the terms and conditions contained in this User Agreement.

Important Disclaimers: The following disclaimers by the Platform are the key to determine any relationship between You and the Platform for your use of the Website and Platform providing any services on the Website:

Platform and its suppliers, affiliates and service providers provide the Website and services on an "as is" basis and without any warranty or condition, express, implied or statutory and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. You expressly agree that your use of the Website is at your risk.

Platform, its associates, affiliates and service providers and technology partners make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, and/or timeliness of any content, information, software, text, graphics, links or communications provided on or through the use of the Website or that the operation of the Website will be error-free and/or uninterrupted.

The Website is only a venue where users may meet and interact with one another for their transactions. The platform is not and cannot be a party to or control in any manner any transaction between two users of the Website. Platform neither recommends You to buy or sell any goods or services on the Website nor endorses any such goods or services nor provides any guarantee, warranty or assurance with respect to any goods or services made available on the Website. Further, Platform does not guarantee, warranty or provide any assurance on the behaviour of any user of the Website including any guarantee, warranty or assurance that any user (whether buyer or seller) will complete any transaction or act prudently. Save as otherwise provided in the clause titled "Limitation of Liability", Your sole and exclusive remedy and Platform's sole and exclusive responsibility and liability is to provide You with necessary information (subject to Privacy Policy and applicable laws) for You to deal with other users of the Website with respect to any dispute.

The Platform provides certain independent services to facilitate the transactions between users of the Websites and such independent services may include listing management, warehousing services, logistics services, making available courier services and making available certain gems and jewellery certification services, payment facilitation through nodal bank(s) under applicable laws. You understand, agree and acknowledge that the Platform will engage independent third-party service providers to perform these services. The Platform may on a reasonable efforts basis procure ordinary industry standard warranties from these third parties. You further understand, agree and acknowledge that the Platform will not be held liable or responsible towards You or towards any person claiming under or through You for any actions, commission, omission, misconduct, fraud or negligence (whether in contract or tort or under the public policy) of these third parties unless such actions, commission, omission or negligence of the third party is attributed to a direct cause of misconduct and gross negligence of Platform and in such an event the total aggregate liability of the Platform shall be limited to the extent provided in the clause titled "Limitation of Liability".

You understand, agree and acknowledge that the Platform uses third-party services providers to store and process Your personal information and other information which You provide to the Platform (as more specifically identified in the Privacy Policy) and such third parties may store and process your personal information in a country or state which may not have jurisdiction over You and/or such country or state may not have any data protection or data privacy laws or such country's or state's data protection or data privacy laws may not be as strong as the country or state having jurisdiction over You or over the Platform. You agree and understand that Platform provides no guarantee, warranty or assurance that such third-party service providers will protect Your personal information and Platform shall not be liable for any actions, commission, omission, misconduct, fraud or negligence (whether in contract or tort or under the public policy) of these third parties unless such actions, commission, omission or negligence of the third party is attributed to a direct cause of misconduct and gross negligence of Platform.

You agree that the aforesaid disclaimers shall be in addition to any other disclaimers given in this User Agreement.

Electronic Communications

When You use the Website or send emails or other data, information or communication to the Platform, You agree and understand that You are communicating with the Website and Platform and all other Registered Users and Visitors through electronic records which are legally identifiable and enforceable, and You consent to receive communications via electronic records from the Website, Platform and all other Registered Users and Visitors and as and when posted, communicated or required.

Service of Notice: The Registration Data and email ID or Your account details of the third party website through which You register with the Website will be construed as Your 'designated electronic address' and the Platform, Website, other Registered Users, Visitors, third parties and law enforcement agencies will communicate with You on your designated electronic address which will be deemed adequate service of notice / electronic record.

By impliedly or expressly accepting this User Agreement, You also accept and agree to be bound by various policies of the Platform as provided from time to time in various hyperlinks on the Website.

Membership Eligibility

Use of the Website is available only to persons who can form legally binding contracts under Indian Contract Act, 1872 and any other applicable law for this purpose. Persons who are "incompetent to contract" within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and any other applicable law for this purpose including minors, un-discharged insolvents etc. are not eligible to use the Website.

If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you shall not register as a member of the Website and shall not sell, purchase or bid for any items on the Website. As a minor, if you wish to purchase or sell an item on the Website such a purchase or sale may be made by your legal guardian or parents who have registered as users of the Website. Platform reserves the right to terminate your membership and refuse to provide you with access to the Website if it is brought to Platform's notice or if it is discovered that you are under the age of 18 years or are otherwise "incompetent to contract". If you are registering as or on behalf of a business entity, you represent that you are duly authorized by the business entity to accept this User Agreement and you have the authority to bind that business entity to this User Agreement.

Membership Benefits

As you register on Storieshomes, you get immediately entitled to huge savings and access to a large range of home and furniture products on India's Largest Home Décor Store.

Once you complete the Sign-Up (registration) process you will get a welcome email on your registered email. In case you do not find the email, please check your spam/ junk mailbox.

Besides the initial registration offer, the other benefits of having an account with Stories Homes are:

You can add or edit your Shipping Address and Contact Details by logging in to the 'Your Account' Section on StoriesHomes.

Your Account and Registration Obligations

If you use the Website as Registered User, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your User ID and Password. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your User ID and Password. You agree, inter alia, to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Website registration form or provided by You as a Visitor or user of a third-party site through which You access the Website. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete or Platform has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with the User Agreement, Platform has the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block access of your membership with the Website and refuse to provide you with access to the Website.

You hereby grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights you have in Your information, in any media or medium now known or developed, produced, invented or used in future, with respect to Your information.

Fees and Services

Membership on the Website is free. The platform does not charge any fee for browsing, bidding and buying on the Website. However, before you list an item for sale through the Website, You shall be subject to such Platform fees as mentioned in the Platform Fee Policy ("Platform Fee"). You are recommended to review Platform Fee each time before listing any item for sale on the Website. Platform reserves the right to change its Platform Fee and/or Platform Fee Policy from time to time. Changes to the Platform Fee and Platform Fee Policy shall be posted on the Website and such changes shall automatically become effective immediately after they are posted on the Website. Unless otherwise stated, all fees shall be quoted in Indian Rupees and be payable to the Platform within such time as specified in the invoice.

Taxes

You are responsible for paying all fees associated with the use of the Website and you agree to bear any and all applicable taxes, charges, cesses etc. levied thereon.

Non-payment

Platform reserves the right to issue a warning, temporarily /indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership of the Website and refuse to provide you with access to the Website in case of non-payment of Platform Fees. The platform also reserves the right to take legal action in case of non-payment of Platform Fees Use of the Website

You understand and agree that the Platform and the Website merely provide services to its Registered Users and persons browsing/visiting the Website. All items advertised/listed and the contents therein are advertised and listed by or on behalf of Registered Users and are third-party contents. The Website also contains various third-party user-generated content and material. The Platform neither originates nor initiates the transmission nor selects the sender and receiver of the transmission nor selects nor modifies the information contained in the transmission. The platform has no control over third-party user-generated contents.

You agree, undertake and confirm that your use of the Website shall be strictly governed by the following binding principles:

You are solely responsible for Your Information, and the Platform and the Website act only as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of Your Information. You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information or share/list(s) any information or item that:

belongs to another person and to which You do not have any right to.
Is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, 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" within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.
Harm minors in any way.
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.
Violates any law for the time being in force.
Deceives or misleads the addressee/ users about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature.
Impersonate another person.
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 the value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
Threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, 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.
Shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading.
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.
Shall not create liability for Platform or cause Platform to lose or disrupt (in whole or in part) the services of our service providers or other suppliers; and.
Shall not link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of items, goods or services that are prohibited under the User Agreement or any other applicable law for the time being in force including but not limited to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, the Drugs And Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Information Technology Act 2000 as amended time to time and rules there under.

Please note that in accordance with the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules 2011, in case of non-compliance with rules and regulations, User Agreement and/or any policies contained or referred to herein for access or usage of an intermediary computer resource, the intermediary has the right to immediately terminate the access or usage rights of the users to the computer resource of Intermediary and remove non-compliant information. This right is in addition to all other rights and remedies available to the Platform against You either in this User Agreement or any policy contained herein, in any applicable law or under torts.

You shall at all times ensure full compliance with the applicable provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there-under as applicable and as amended from time to time and also all applicable laws, rules and regulations and international laws (including without limitation all direct and indirect tax laws and all local, entry or usage related tax laws) regarding your use of our service and your listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of items or services. You shall not engage in any transaction in an item or service, which is prohibited by the provisions of any applicable law including exchange control laws or regulations for the time being in force. In particular, you shall ensure that if any of your items listed on the Website qualifies as an "Antiquity" or "Art treasure" as defined in the Act ("Artwork"), you shall indicate that such Artwork is "non-exportable" and sold subject to the provisions of the Arts and Antiquities Act, and shall ensure that it is not delivered to any buyer at any place outside India.

Platform for Communication

All commercial/contractual terms are offered by and agreed to between buyers and sellers alone. The commercial/contractual terms include without limitation price, shipping costs, payment methods, payment terms, date, period and mode of delivery, warranties related to goods and services and after-sales services related to goods and services. The platform does not have any control or determines or advise or in any way involve itself in the offering or acceptance of such commercial / contractual terms between buyers and sellers. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the Platform may provide certain transaction support services to sellers and buyers of the website as provided in various rules and policies on the Website.

The platform is not responsible for any non-performance or breach of any contract entered into between users. The platform cannot and does not guarantee, warrant, assure or ensure that the users will perform, undertake, consume or conclude any transaction concluded on the Website. The platform shall not and is not required to mediate or resolve any dispute or disagreement between users.

The platform does not make any representation or warranty as to the attributes (such as quality, worth, marketability, etc.) of the items or services proposed to be sold or offered to be sold or purchased on the Website. In particular, the Platform does not implicitly or explicitly support or endorse the sale or purchase of any items or services on the Website. The platform accepts no liability for any errors or omissions, whether on behalf of itself or third parties.

The platform does not make any representation or warranty as to the attributes (such as legal title, creditworthiness, identity, etc.) of any of its users. You are advised to independently verify the bona fides of any particular User that you choose to deal with on the Website and use your best judgment on that behalf.

The platform is only providing a platform or venue for communication and it is agreed that the contract for the sale of any of the products or services shall be a strictly bipartite contract between the seller and the buyer. At no time shall any right, title or interest over the items vest with Platform nor shall Platform have any obligations or liabilities in respect of such contract, except for certain transaction support services as provided in various rules and policies on the Website.

The platform is not responsible for the unsatisfactory or delayed performance of services or damages or delays as a result of items which are out of stock, back ordered or otherwise unavailable. All items are offered only for a restricted time and only for the available supply.

You release and indemnify Platform and/or any of its shareholders, directors, officers, personnel and representatives from any cost, damage, liability or other consequence of any of the actions of Your on the Website and specifically waive any claims that you may have in this behalf under any applicable law.

The platform cannot control the information provided by other users which is made available on the Website. You may find other users' information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution and practice safe trading when using the Website.

No Warranty and Disclaimers

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall Platform or its affiliates and service providers be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses arising out of or in connection with the Website, its services or this agreement (however arising, including negligence or under torts or under the public policy).

In addition to any limitation of liability and various disclaimers provided elsewhere in this User Agreement, Platform's entire liability and Your sole and exclusive remedy in any circumstance are limited to the following:

If You are a seller on the Platform: an amount of Platform Fees, if any, paid by You as a seller on the Website to Platform for the transaction under dispute.

If You are a buyer: the Platform's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy in any circumstance are limited to exercising its reasonable efforts to enable to You get a refund of the product price from the seller on the Website.

Other than the aforesaid, Platform shall have no liability to You.

Indemnity

You shall fully indemnify, keep indemnified, defend and hold harmless Platform and Platform's shareholders, subsidiaries, affiliates, third parties and their respective shareholders, officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or demand, or actions including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or arising out of your breach of the User Agreement or any rules and policies contained herein, or your violation of any law, rules or regulations or the rights of a third party.

General

None of the provisions of the User Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between You and Platform and You shall have no authority to bind Platform in any manner whatsoever nor shall Platform have any authority to bind you in any manner whatsoever. All the services provided by the Platform shall be as independent contractors and on a principal-to-principal basis.

If any clause of the User Agreement shall be deemed invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, such clause shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining clauses of the User Agreement.

This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between You and Platform with respect to the subject matter hereof.

In Platform's sole discretion, Platform may transfer its rights and obligations under this Agreement, assign this Agreement or novate this Agreement without your prior express consent. However, Platform on a reasonable efforts basis and if practicable may provide You with an advance intimation of any such acts.

This User Agreement and all the rules and policies contained herein and any of Your usage of Website and Your dealings with Platform shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of India.