Conocimiento

Terms & Conditions

We value the trust you place in Conocimiento Infotech. That's why we insist upon your reading these Terms of Use carefully. The Terms and Conditions and policies about Privacy, Fees, Payments, Promotions, Delivery, Returns and Refund together shall form the entire Terms of Use.

1. What Is This Document?

1.1 These terms of use, read together with the (i) Privacy Policy, (ii) Shipping Policy (iii) Return & Refund Policy, a company incorporated under the laws of India, having its registered office at 62/D/1 Raja SC Mullick Road Jadavpur Kolkata 700032 West Bengal , India ("Conocimiento Infotech").

1.2 The Terms of Use, provides the terms that govern your access to use (i) Conocimiento Infotech’s website conocimientoinfotech.com, and its mobile, tablet and desktop applications (Platforms), (ii) Conocimiento Infotech’s online electronics solutions, which facilitates the purchase of electronics, and automation devices sold by Conocimiento Infotech (Products) through the Platforms, and (iii) and any other service that may be provided by Conocimiento Infotech from time to time collectively referred to as the (Services).

1.3 You hereby understand and agree that the Terms of Use form a binding contract between Conocimiento Infotech and anyone who accesses, browses, or purchases the Products and uses the Services in any manner (User) and accordingly, you hereby agree to be bound by the terms contained in the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the terms contained in the Terms of Use, you are advised not to proceed with purchasing the Products or using the Services. The terms contained in the Terms of Use shall be accepted without modification. The use of the Services would constitute acceptance of the terms of the Terms of Use.

2. Terms And Conditions Applicable To Users

2.1 Users must be 18 years of age or older to register, or visit or use the Services in any manner. By registering, visiting or using the Services, you hereby represent and warrant to Conocimiento Infotech that you are 18 years of age or older, and that you have the right, authority and capacity to use the Services, and agree to abide by the Terms of Use. If a User is below 18 years of age, it is assumed that he/she is using/browsing the Platforms under the supervision of his/her parent or legal guardian and that such User’s parent or legal guardian has read and agrees to the terms of this Terms of Use, including terms of purchase of Products, on behalf of the minor User. Should Conocimiento Infotech be made aware that a User is under the age of 18 and is using/browsing the Platforms without the supervision of his/her parent or legal guardian, Conocimiento Infotech reserves the right to deactivate such User’s account without further notice.

2.2 The Terms of Use are governed by the provisions of Indian law, including, but not limited to:

2.2.1 The Indian Contract Act, 1872;
2.2.2 The Information Technology Act, 2000;
2.2.3 The rules, regulations, guidelines and clarifications framed thereunder, including the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (SPI Rules) and;
2.2.4 The Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 (“IG Rules”).

2.3 The contents of Services, information, text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software code, interface, design and the collection, arrangement and assembly of the content on the Platforms or any of the other Services are the property of Conocimiento Infotech, its parent company, group companies, subsidiaries, associates, affiliates, suppliers, vendors and sister companies, as the case may be (“Conocimiento Infotech Content”), and are protected under copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. You shall not modify the Conocimiento Infotech Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, reverse engineer or otherwise use the Conocimiento Infotech Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose or for personal gain.

2.4 Conocimiento Infotech authorises you to view and access the Conocimiento Infotech Content solely for identifying Products, carrying out purchases of Products and processing returns and refunds, in accordance with Return and Refund Policy, if any. Conocimiento Infotech, therefore, grants you a limited, revocable permission to access and use the Services. This permission does not include a permission for carrying out any resale of the Products or commercial use of the Conocimiento Infotech Content, any collection and use of product listings, description, or prices, and, any derivative use of the Platforms or of Conocimiento Infotech Content.

2.5 As means to assist the Users in identifying the Products of their choice, Conocimiento Infotech provides visual representations on the Platforms including graphics, illustrations, photographs, images, videos, charts, screenshots, infographics and other visual aids. While reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate visual representations, Conocimiento Infotech disclaims any guarantee or warranty of exactness of such visual representation or description of the Product, with the actual Product ultimately delivered to Users. The appearance of the Product when delivered may vary for various reasons.

2.6 Users may make purchases on the Platforms. For the purposes of identifying a User, Conocimiento Infotech may, from time to time, collect certain personally identifiable information such as your first name and last name, email address, mobile phone number, postal address, other contact information, demographic profile, etc. Users may also register themselves on the Platforms. Registration on the Platforms is one-time and you are required to remember your username and password and keep the same confidential. In the event where you have misplaced your username and password details, you can retrieve and change the same using the “forgot username/password” option on the Platforms.

2.7 The User shall assume all risks, liabilities, and consequences if his/her account has been accessed illegally or without authorisation through means such as hacking and if through such unauthorised access, a purchase of Products has been made through the Services. It is specifically clarified that payments of monies towards any Products purchased through the Services by unauthorised or illegal use of the User’s account shall entirely be borne by the User.

2.8 Display of Products for purchase on the Platforms is merely an invitation to offer. An order placed by a User for purchase of a Product constitutes an offer. All orders placed by Users on the Platforms are subject to the availability of such Product, Conocimiento Infotech’s acceptance of the User’s offer and the User’s continued adherence to the terms of the Terms of Use.

2.9 You agree to maintain and promptly update all data provided by you and to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, incomplete, or if Conocimiento Infotech has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current, incomplete, or not in accordance with the terms of the Terms of Use, Conocimiento Infotech reserves the right to indefinitely suspend, terminate or block your access to the Platforms, and refuse to provide you with access to the Platforms in future.

2.10 All rights and liabilities of Conocimiento Infotech with respect to any Services to be provided by it shall be restricted to the scope of the Terms of Use. In addition to the Terms of Use, you shall also ensure that you are in compliance with the terms and conditions of the third parties, whose links are contained/embedded in the Services. It is hereby clarified that Conocimiento Infotech shall not be held liable for any transaction between you and any such third parties.

2.11 You understand that on your registration as a User or on your purchase of Products on the Platforms, you may receive text messages (including through internet-based mobile messaging) and/or emails from Conocimiento Infotech on your registered mobile number and/or email address. These messages and/or emails could relate inter alia to your registration, Conocimiento Infotech’s acceptance or rejection of your offer to purchase a Product, payment information, Product despatch information, information pertaining to other activities you carry out on the Platforms and information pertaining to the promotions that are undertaken by Conocimiento Infotech (or third parties in connection with the Platforms) from time to time. It is specifically clarified that a text message and/or an email confirming the receipt of your order is not an acceptance from Conocimiento Infotech that the Product will be delivered. Conocimiento Infotech’s acceptance to your offer to purchase shall occur and conclude only when the products have been despatched by Conocimiento Infotech and a text message and/or email confirming such despatch has been sent to you. Conocimiento Infotech, at all times, reserves the right to limit the quantity of items in, or cancel an order prior to despatch.

2.12 Any communication from Conocimiento Infotech shall be sent only to your registered mobile number and/or email address or such other contact number or email address that you may designate, for any particular transaction. You shall be solely responsible to update your registered mobile number and/or email address on the Platforms in the event there is a change. Further, Conocimiento Infotech may also send you notifications and reminders with respect to scheduled deliveries of the purchased Products. While Conocimiento Infotech shall make every endeavour to share prompt reminders and notifications relating to the delivery of purchased Products with you, Conocimiento Infotech shall not be held liable for any failure to send such notifications or reminders to you.

2.13 Conocimiento Infotech may, at any time and without having to service any prior notice to you: (i) upgrade, update, change, modify, or improve the Services or a part of the Services in a manner it may deem fit, and (ii) change the contents of the Terms of Use in substance, or as to procedure or otherwise; in each case which will be applicable to all Users. You hereby agree that this is in the fairness of things given the nature of the business and its operations and you will abide by them. As such, you must keep yourself updated at all times and review the terms of the Terms of Use from time to time. Such changes shall be made applicable when they are posted. Conocimiento Infotech may also alter or remove any content from the Platforms without notice.

2.14 While Conocimiento Infotech shall make reasonable endeavours to maintain high standards of security and shall provide the Services by using reasonable efforts, Hamleys shall not be liable for any interruption that may be caused to your access or use of the Services.

2.15 Access to and registration on the Platforms is free of cost. Although unlikely, Conocimiento Infotech may modify the Fee, Payment and Promotions Policy to include a fee on access and browsing of the Platforms, or for use of any new service introduced by Conocimiento Infotech without serving prior notice on the Users.

2.16 The Services included on or otherwise made available to the Users through the Platforms are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any representations or warranties, express or implied, except if otherwise specified in writing. Conocimiento Infotech does not covenant or warrant that:

2.16.1 the Services will be made available at all times;
2.16.2 the Conocimiento Infotech Content available on the Platforms is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading; and
2.16.3 the Products are of specified merchantability, merchantable quality and fit for use for a particular purpose.
The User hereby affirms that the information provided by him / her is true, correct and complete to the best of his / her knowledge and belief. The User agrees and understands that he / she will be solely responsible in the event of any inaccuracy or deviation therefrom at a later stage.

3. User Covenants And Obligations

3.1 As mandated under the provisions of Regulation 3(2) of the IG Rules, Conocimiento Infotech hereby informs you that you are prohibited from hosting, displaying, uploading, modifying, publishing, transmitting, updating or sharing any information that:

3.1.1 belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right;
3.1.2 is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise harmful in any manner whatsoever;
3.1.3 harms minors in any way;
3.1.4 infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
3.1.5 violates any law for the time being in force;
3.1.6 deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
3.1.7 impersonates or defames another person; or
3.1.8 contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource.

3.2 You are also prohibited from:

3.2.1 violating or attempting to violate the integrity or security of the Platforms or the Conocimiento Infotech Content;
3.2.2 transmitting any information on or through the Platforms that is disruptive or competitive to the provision of Services by Conocimiento Infotech;
3.2.3 intentionally submitting on the Platforms, false or inaccurate information;
3.2.4 using any engine, software, tool, agent or other mechanism (such as spiders, robots, avatars, worms, time bombs, Easter eggs, cancel bots, intelligent agents, etc.) to navigate or search the Platforms;
3.2.5 attempting to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any part of the Platforms; or
3.2.6 copying or duplicating in any manner any of the Conocimiento Infotech Content.

3.4 You hereby authorise Conocimiento Infotech to declare and provide declarations to any Governmental authority on request on your behalf, including that the Products ordered by you are for personal, non-commercial use.

3.5 Conocimiento Infotech may disclose or transfer information provided by you to its affiliates in India and other countries, and you hereby consent to such transfer. In terms of the SPI Rules, Conocimiento Infotech can transfer sensitive personal data or information to any other body corporate or a person that ensures the same level of data protection that is adhered to by Conocimiento Infotech as provided for under the SPI Rules, only if such transfer is necessary for the performance of the lawful contract between Conocimiento Infotech or any person on its behalf and the User or where you have consented to such data transfer.

4. Third Party Information Third Party Information

4.1 All information in relation to third parties as available on the Platforms (collectively referred to as “Third Party Information”) are provided solely for your reference. Conocimiento Infotech is not endorsing the Third Party Information and is not responsible for any errors and representation nor is it associated with it and you shall access the Third Party Information at your own risk.

4.2 Further, it is up to you to take sufficient precautions to ensure that whatever links you select, whether from the Platforms, or other Services, is free of such items such as, but not limited to, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

5.1 All the intellectual property used on the Platforms by Conocimiento Infotech, including the Conocimiento Infotech Content, shall remain the property of Conocimiento Infotech, its parent company, group companies, subsidiaries, associates, affiliates, suppliers, vendors, sister companies or of any third party hosting such intellectual property on the Platforms. Except as provided in the Terms of Use, the materials may not be modified, copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, sold, compiled, posted or transmitted in any form by any means, including but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means, without the prior express written permission of Conocimiento Infotech, its parent company, group companies, subsidiaries, associates, affiliates, suppliers, vendors, sister companies or any third party hosting such material on the Platforms, as the case may be.

5.2 If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been used in a way that raises concerns of infringement, please write to us at connect@conocimientoinfotech.com and let us know of your concerns.

6. Unlawful Or Prohibited Use

You warrant to Conocimiento Infotech that you will comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding the use of the Services and any other related activities. You further warrant that you will not use the Platforms in any way prohibited by terms contained in the Terms of Use or under applicable law.

7. Liability

7.1 You acknowledge and undertake that you are accessing the Services and purchasing the Products at your own risk and that you are using prudent judgment before placing an order for a Product or availing any Services through the Platforms. Conocimiento Infotech shall, at no point, be held liable or responsible for any representations or warranties in relation to the Products. Refund of the price paid for the purchase of a Product or replacement thereof shall be governed by the Return and Refund Policy which may be accessed here.

7.2 Conocimiento Infotech does not provide or make any representation, warranty or guarantee, express or implied about the Platforms, Products or the Services, and all implied warranties under law or contract are to the maximum extent possible hereby disclaimed.

7.3 The maximum aggregate liability of Conocimiento Infotech, in respect of all Services provided, and all transactions undertaken by the User by using the Services, shall be limited to a maximum of INR 1,000 (Indian Rupees one thousand).

8. Indemnity

You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Conocimiento Infotech , its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, licensors, agents and representatives from any and all claims, losses, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from (i) your access to or use of the Services or Products, (ii) violation of the Terms of Use, (iii) infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account with Conocimiento Infotech, (iv) action or inaction on behalf of Conocimiento Infotech’s third party affiliates, manufacturers, vendors, suppliers and logistic partners in providing services; and (v) infringement of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. Conocimiento Infotech shall notify you promptly of such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and in addition to your foregoing obligations, you agree to provide Conocimiento Infotech with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage or cost.

9. Grievance Officer

In accordance with the provisions of the SPI Rules, any grievances which you may have with respect to the information shared by you with Conocimiento Infotech hereunder and its treatment, may be directed by you to the grievance officer of Conocimiento Infotech at connect@conocimientoinfotech.com or at the below mentioned coordinates:
Name: Shankhadeep Ghosh
Email Address: connect@conocimientoinfotech.com
Postal Address: 62/D/1 Raja SC Mullick Road Jadavpur Kolkata 700032 West Bengal
Designation: Grievance Officer

10. Severability

If any provision of the Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to such provision and the remaining part of such provision and all other provisions of the Terms of Use shall continue to be in full force and effect.

11. Terms And Termination

11.1 The Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect while you use any Service in any form or capacity.

11.2 Conocimiento Infotech reserves the right to terminate its Services provided to you in the event of breach of any terms contained in the Terms of Use, misrepresentation of information, any unlawful activity or if Hamleys is unable to verify or authenticate any information you submit to it.

11.3 The User may terminate the Terms of Use at any time, provided that the User discontinues any further use of the Platforms or Services.

11.4 It is specifically clarified that any termination of the Terms of Use by a User shall not cancel the User’s obligation to pay for a Product purchased on the Platforms, or any other obligation which has accrued, or is unfulfilled and relates to the period, prior to termination.

11.5 Any provision of the Terms of Use which imposes an obligation or creates a right that by its nature will be valid after termination or expiration of the Terms of Use shall survive the termination or expiration of the Terms of Use.

12. Dispute Resolution And Governing Law

12.1 The Terms of Use and any contractual obligation between Conocimiento Infotech and you under the Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of India, subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Kolkata.

12.2 All disputes will be subject to arbitration at Kolkata in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in the English language. Conocimiento Infotech and the disputing User shall be entitled to appoint 1 (one) arbitrator each and the 2 (two) arbitrators so appointed will jointly appoint the 3rd (third) arbitrator.

12.3 Arbitration awards shall be reasoned awards and shall be final and binding on Conocimiento Infotech and the disputing User, and shall be enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.

13. Waiver

Conocimiento Infotech’s failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Use or respond to a breach by a User or User shall in no way imply a waiver of Conocimiento Infotech’s right to subsequently enforce any provision of the terms of the Terms of Use or to act with respect to similar breaches by a User or User.

Postal Address: 62/D/1 Raja SC Mullick Road Jadavpur Kolkata 700032 West Bengal
Email Address: connect@conocimientoinfotech.com

14. Interpretation

14.1Headings, subheadings, titles, subtitles to clauses, sub-clauses and paragraphs are for information only and shall not form part of the operative provisions of the Terms of Use and shall be ignored in construing the same.

14.2 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and words denoting any gender shall include all genders.

14.3 The words “include” and “including” are to be construed without limitation.